OpenCascade license?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz> 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 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?
>
> 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?

Thanks,
Richard