Re: OpenCascade license?

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Dan Horák <dan(a)danny.cz&gt; wrote: > Richard Shaw píše v Út 01. 11. 2011 v 08:57 -0500: >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Dan Horák <dan(a)danny.cz&gt; wrote: >> > Richard Shaw píše v Po 31. 10. 2011 v 16:16 -0500: >> >> I'm taking a shot a building FreeCAD since I'm a CAD jockey in my day >> >> job and a "good" free CAD solution would be neat. >> >> >> >> It has OpenCascade as a major dependency, which uses their own >> >> license[1]. They claim it's LGPL-like. Would this have to go in free >> >> or non-free? >> > >> > per Tom "Spot" Callaway and Red Hat Legal it is non-free, you should be >> > able to find the details in the archive of the fedora-legal mailing list >> > and/or OCC package review request in Fedora bugzilla. >> > >> > OCC 6.3.0 is available from http://fedora.danny.cz/danny/ and it would >> > be nice to see OCC in a more official repo. >> >> Well I took a look at your source package. Do you have any interest in >> maintaining it in RPM Fusion? > > That was the original plan, but as you can see the package is still in > version 6.3.0 while upstream (and Debian) has 6.5.0 already. > Unfortunately I got quite busy with other work so I couldn't give OCC > the needed care. > >> The reason I ask is I noticed the large number of patches that I'm not >> sure I'm even qualified to maintain. I see some minor things that need >> to be changed in the spec but overall it's in very good shape. > > The community around OCC is much alive in Debian, so I took the patches > mainly from them, some are mine and they were sent to Debian. OCC is a > large package and sharing the work is really necessary. The structure > how are the libraries divided into subpackages is also copied from > Debian, with the exception that there is only one devel subpackage. I'll see if I can dig up the updated patches from them then. I downloaded the new 6.5.1 source which I noticed was about twice the size of the one in your SRPM. Did you remove some parts of the source? For instance, windows only portions or pre-compiled portions?