Bug#680738: salome-gui: links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

[Francesco Poli]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:20:17 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:

[...]
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:06:19 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> SALOME links with
> both GPL-licensed (PyQT) and GPL-incompatible libraries (OCE).
[...]
> 
> Possible solutions, in descending order of desirability:
> 
>  (A) Open CASCADE S.A.S. should be contacted and persuaded to
> re-license Open CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-and-v3-compatible terms.
[...]

*** Breaking news!!! ***

As some of you may already know, it finally happened!  :-)

The upcoming version of Open CASCADE Technology (version 6.7.0) will be
licensed under the GNU LGPL v2.1 (+ some minor additional permissions).

This decision was announced on the 21st of November 2013, at the SALOME
User's Day and is now also announced on the web site:
http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_25600/?forum=19
http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=node/908

For a long time, a good number of people have been asking Open CASCADE
S.A.S. to re-license.
Personally, I have pestered them since April 2009 (!).
We finally succeeded!    :-)
This certifies that my superpower is: being a pain in the neck!  ;-)


What does this mean for bug #680738 ?
Please note that the previous versions of Open CASCADE Technology
are *not* affected by the re-licensing, unfortunately.

As far as I know, the road-map is:

 0) OCCT (Open CasCade Technology) 6.7.0 will be released under
LGPL-2.1  [ this should happen soon ]

 1) a new version of OCE (Opencascade Community Edition) based on OCCT
6.7.0 will be released with all the changes (with respect to OCCT)
re-licensed under LGPL-2.1  [ the plan is described in
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oce-dev/LPi2gm7-m9E/ayDty-rMl50J ]

 2) this new version of OCE will be packaged for Debian

 3) once salome-gui depends on this new version of Debian package oce,
this bug report will be closed

 4) everyone will celebrate!   \o/


I am looking forward to seeing all this happen.

Bye!


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