Bug#617613: Bug#702193: Bug#617613: freecad in fact does not link to incompatible libraries

[Adam D. Barratt]

On 05.03.2013 08:06, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Looking again at coin3-library and trying to get a newer version, I
> realized, that the latest available version is the same as in
> Debian, 3.1.3. This version, seems, has been released in 2010,
> when the license was GPL.
>
> The last commit into VCS was in December 2011, one of them - changing
> the headers to BSD-license [3]. But after that time there was no 
> release.
> And, it seems, the project is abandoned.
>
> Of course, I will grab and package the VCS-version to solve a license
> problem, but for the time being, from my point of view, #617613 is 
> not
> relevant any more. And it would be nice to get a wheezy-exception-tag
> for freecad.

I'm a little confused here, so apologies if I'm missing something. Are 
you suggesting that we can distribute the copy of coin3 in wheezy under 
a BSD license? If not then the wheezy copy still appears to be 
undistributable.

(This is of course also on the assumption that we accept that a 
codebase released under the GPL can subsequently be blanket-relicensed 
as BSD.)

> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/702193
> [2] https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/commits
> [3]
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/commits/3ba6b414273e44c6e9f6df69472cf6fbf23dd08d

Regards,

Adam