Bug#617613: Bug#690461: RM: freecad/0.12.5284-dfsg-7

Anton Gladky gladky.anton at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 15:47:23 UTC 2012


I am not agreed with that and asked adding wheezy-ignore tag
to the bug 617613 [1].

We are not able to add a relicensed opencascade version
on this freeze-stage. But in general the problem seems to be
resolved and new version will hopefully be packaged after the
wheezy-release.

Anton

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617613#163


2012/10/14 Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>:
> freecad contains GPLv2 code and links to OCTPL (non-GPL-compatible)
> libraries (bug #617613)/ This is supposed to be fixed soon as there is
> a new version of libopencascade under a BSD licence
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617613#153>.
>
> Since the relicensed libopencascade is not available in Debian and
> probably will not get into wheezy, I think freecad should be removed
> from stable and testing.
>
> Ben.



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