Linking and licensing question

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 20:20:01 CET 2011


On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> The requirements of the OpenCASCADE license (in particular, the ban on
> commercial use) are most definitely NOT compatible with the GPL, so FreeCAD
> upstream must declare an exception if they want to comply with their own
> license (and they should, if they want their software to be legally
> redistributable by others).

Kevin,

I'm a bit confused. Which part of the license bans commercial use of OCC?

On a side note I found the following exchange on the OCC list that was
very informative:
http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_15859/

Thanks,
Richard


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