Bug#698527: elmer: executable ElmerGUI.real links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

Boris Pek tehnick-8 at yandex.ru
Sun Jan 27 17:08:29 UTC 2013


>>  That's true, but, as I said previously [1], *if* there were a
>>  significant step forward (such as a decision by Open CASCADE S.A.S.,
>>  with a public promise that next version of Open CASCADE Technology will
>>  be re-licensed under GPLv2-and-v3-compatible terms), *then* we could
>>  maybe obtain a wheezy-ignore tag for this bug (assuming that the
>>  OpenSSL linking issue is easier to solve)...
>
> Pretty sure you won't get such a promise before wheezy is out...

More over, opencascade was recently removed from Wheezy [1]...

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/opencascade/news/20130127T163914Z.html

Regards,
Boris



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