Bug#764814: freecad downloads and executes code

[Yorik van Havre]

Hi,

This download happens the first time a user wants to use the DXF
import/export feature. Since the license of our DXF exporter is GPL, and
other components of FreeCAD prevent from linking to GPL code (namely
OpenCasCade and Coin3D) (the whole story is another Debian bug), we found
this trick of moving the dxf exporter out of the FreeCAD sources, and
placing it online, so it can be downloaded by users the first time they
need it. We control that resource ourselves (FreeCAD developers), so I
don't think there is a higher risk than if we included that code directly
in the source...

I really don't know what else we can do... Would showing a dialog saying:
"Warning! FreeCAD will now download python code for the dxf exporter"
satisfy you?

Yorik
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