Bug#617613: freecad: Remaining licensing issues

[Francesco Poli]

Control: notfixed -1 freecad/0.13.1830-dfsg-2
Control: found -1 freecad/0.13.1830-dfsg-3


On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:07:10 -0300 Yorik van Havre wrote:

> Hi guys,

Hello Yorik, thanks a lot for following up.

[I had not noticed your message immediately, since I was not in Cc.
 I only looked at the bug log on the BTS later...  Please Cc me on
 replies, thanks!]

> 
> 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.

This is really appreciated, thanks a lot for performing a thorough code
audit!

>  If something is still GPL, it is an error from our part, just notify us
> and we'll fix it.

Great! Thank you very much for your helpfulness!

> 
> 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, I agree, assuming that the Coin3D re-licensing also covers SoQT
(actually, I still see GPL headers on
http://doc.coin3d.org/SoQt/files.html , hence it's probably worth
asking for a clarification from the SoQT upstream copyright holders).

> 
> We're doing all we can to keep FreeCAD in debian,

Sure, and many people (including me) are really thankful for this!

Cheers!



Note (mainly to myself): the remaining issues to be solved are

 • SoQT (and the corresponding Debian source package soqt) is still
   GPL-licensed, despite the Coin3D re-licensing to BSD

 • any remaining GPL-licensed files included in FreeCAD (and the
   corresponding Debian package freecad) need to be removed or
   re-licensed to LGPL

 • the debian/copyright file of freecad needs to be updated (again)


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