On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:38:00 +0200 Arne Wichmann wrote: > This serious bug is now open without any action for more than a year. Is > that supposed to change?
Hi Arne, thanks for following up on my bug report. I am personally trying hard to persuade Open CASCADE S.A.S. to re-license Open CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-compatible terms. This is solution (A), as described in my original bug report. I have been pestering Open CASCADE S.A.S. since April 2009... Unfortunately, latest news [1] is that they postponed the decision (again!). [1] http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=node/31#comment-63 However, several months have passed since February 2012 (at least for some definition of "several"!). Hence, I've recently resumed my persuasion effort. But I need help from other people. *Many* other people. As I repeatedly stated in the bug log [2] of #617613 (especially, please read at least the original report [3]), other people should contact Open CASCADE S.A.S. and try to persuade them to re-license Open CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-compatible terms (for instance, under the GNU LGPL v2.1). If nobody helps me in this persuasion struggle, I am afraid that the only solution will be to remove a number of packages from Debian, which is always a sad defeat! [2] http://bugs.debian.org/617613 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/617613#5 -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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