On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 19:41:34 +0200 Anton Gladky wrote: > 2013/8/9 Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org>: > > the GPL-licensed files are: > > > > Files: src/Mod/Draft/* > > > > Files: src/Mod/Draft/draftlibs/dxf* > > > > Files: src/Mod/Part/MakeBottle.py > > src/Tools/* > > > > Please clarify whether these files are linked with or incorporated into > > any program that links with Open CASCADE. > > Most of them are LGPL.
Sorry, but I cannot understand what you mean here. The above-mentioned files are claimed to be "License: GPL-2+" in the current debian/copyright file: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/freecad.git;a=blob;f=debian/copyright;h=81ce65f6a88f3238b1d1cbe24baf36de05fe1608;hb=01b8f377dc5544c280f706b0a82984f8fd8a7ff4 As a consequence, either the debian/copyright file is still wrong (please update it again, if this is the case), or those files are GPL-licensed (and *not* LGPL-licensed). Which is the case? Please clarify. > As I understand, they are independent python-scripts > for different stuffs. Could you please elaborate? Are these GPL-licensed files just Python scripts that are run by the user, outside of FreeCAD? Or does FreeCAD fork and exec those scripts (with the help a Python interpreter)? Or does FreeCAD dynamically link those scripts as plug-ins? Please see: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF Depending on how these files are intended to be used with FreeCAD, they could or could not constitute an issue, due to the OpenCASCADE GPL-incompatibility. > Anyway OCE has no python-interface at all. But FreeCAD has a Python interface, doesn't it? And FreeCAD links with OCE... > > > Moreover, I've just noticed that among the dependencies of freecad > > there's > > > > libsoqt4-20 > > > > which is licensed under the GNU GPL v2: > > http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/soqt/soqt_1.5.0- > > From their website: > > http://doc.coin3d.org/SoQt/ > > "SoQt is a library which provides the glue between Systems in Motion's > Coin high-level 3D visualization library and Troll Tech's Qt 2D user > interface library." > > It is used for QT-Coin cooperation. Yes, but it is still licensed under the GPL GPL v2. FreeCAD links with it *and* with OpenCASCADE Technology, which is GPL-incompatible. So it seems that we still have an issue similar to the one with Coin3D (which used to be GPL-licensed, but was later re-licensed under the 3-clause BSD, thus solving the issue). If SoQt is not re-licensed similarly to how Coin3D was, I think that the issue with freecad is not yet fixed. Anton, please clarify. Thanks a lot for your time and for all the effort you're putting into freecad package maintenance. -- 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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