Bug#618968: Ping - netgen license problems

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:38:00 +0200 Arne Wichmann wrote:

> This serious bug is now open without any action for more than a year. Is
> that supposed to change?

Hi Arne,
thanks for following up on my bug report.

I am personally trying hard to persuade Open CASCADE S.A.S. to
re-license Open CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-compatible terms.
This is solution (A), as described in my original bug report.
I have been pestering Open CASCADE S.A.S. since April 2009...

Unfortunately, latest news [1] is that they postponed the decision
(again!).

[1] http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=node/31#comment-63

However, several months have passed since February 2012 (at least for
some definition of "several"!).
Hence, I've recently resumed my persuasion effort.

But I need help from other people.
*Many* other people.
As I repeatedly stated in the bug log [2] of #617613 (especially,
please read at least the original report [3]), other people should
contact Open CASCADE S.A.S. and try to persuade them to re-license Open
CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-compatible terms (for instance, under
the GNU LGPL v2.1).
If nobody helps me in this persuasion struggle, I am afraid that the
only solution will be to remove a number of packages from Debian, which
is always a sad defeat!

[2] http://bugs.debian.org/617613
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/617613#5


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