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

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sun Jan 27 17:28:43 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 19:08:29 +0200, Boris Pek wrote:

> >>  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]...
> 
It's replaced by oce, which has the same license.

Cheers,
Julien
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