Bug#617613: closed by Anton Gladky <gladk at debian.org> (Bug#617613: fixed in freecad 0.13.1830-dfsg-2)

Boris Pek tehnick-8 at yandex.ru
Mon Aug 12 12:43:58 UTC 2013


Hi Yorik,

> we recently passed through a process of removing all the remaining bits of GPL code from FreeCAD.
> All the scripts stated above (Draft, draftlibs, makeBottle, etc) have either been converted to LGPL or
> removed from the source. Next time you pull the code from us the warnings above should al be gone.
> If something is still GPL, it is an error from our part, just notify us and we'll fix it.

Thanks a lot for clarification. I hope that package will be updated soon.

> About SoQt, it is part of the coin3D library, which switched last year from GPL to BSD. I noticed
> that the latest package of coin (libcoin80) already shows the BSD license. Maybe libsoqt4-20 needs
> to be updated too to reflect the new license. I guess that would solve all the remaining issues...

Yes, it should be checked.

> We're doing all we can to keep FreeCAD in debian, but it sometimes really seems like an impossible task...

Hmm, what about Fedora? They have strict license policy as well.

Moreover, please have in mind that this is not Debian specific problem. Even
your builds for MS Windows and Mac OS X were (are) illegal for distribution.
But who cares there?..

Best regards,
Boris



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