Bug#617613: freecad: links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

Fri Sep 14 20:31:21 UTC 2012

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Andres Cimmarusti
<acimmarusti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Fortunately Kongsberg, the company behind Coin3D, send a letter to all its paying customer that they decided to discontinue the commercial Version and plan to release the source under BSD. This switch and the removal of smaller libs (e.g. PyQt) will remove all GPL dependencies of FreeCAD.
>
> This may be true, but their website still shows the paid and GPL
> version. Is there any updates regarding this? It's been months since
> this 'news'.

This change has been finally carried out!

https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/wiki/Home

Can this bug now be closed? or do we need to wait for freecad 0.13?

Andres