Bug#617931: gmsh: multiple licensing issues

[Francesco Poli]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:21:19 +0200 biucchi at freenet.de wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I don't understand if this bug is solved: I see that now "gmsh" depends on the OpenCASCADE Community Edition.

Dear Gabriele,
gmsh now depends on OCE (Open CASCADE Community Edition), but this
change does *not* solve the licensing issue, unfortunately, since OCE
is a fork of Open CASCADE Technology, and is released under the terms
of the same license...

Hence, we are back in square one: Open CASCADE S.A.S. should be
persuaded to re-license Open CASCADE Technology under GPL-compatible
terms.

See also the recent thread on debian-science and debian-legal:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/06/msg00038.html


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