forwarded 764814 http://freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=1785 thanks
Yorik, there is a patch attached on FreeCAD bugtracker. Can it be applied? Thanks Anton 2014-10-11 19:43 GMT+02:00 Yorik van Havre <yo...@uncreated.net>: > Hi, > > This download happens the first time a user wants to use the DXF > import/export feature. Since the license of our DXF exporter is GPL, and > other components of FreeCAD prevent from linking to GPL code (namely > OpenCasCade and Coin3D) (the whole story is another Debian bug), we found > this trick of moving the dxf exporter out of the FreeCAD sources, and > placing it online, so it can be downloaded by users the first time they need > it. We control that resource ourselves (FreeCAD developers), so I don't > think there is a higher risk than if we included that code directly in the > source... > > I really don't know what else we can do... Would showing a dialog saying: > "Warning! FreeCAD will now download python code for the dxf exporter" > satisfy you? > > Yorik > > > > -- > debian-science-maintainers mailing list > debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
