OpenCascade license?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 14:57:48 CET 2011


On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz> 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?

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.

Thanks,
Richard


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