On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 12:05 +0100, Juergen Riegel wrote: > Hi together, > I'm, together with Werner, the maintainer of FreeCAD. > Based on the long history of license struggle with OCTPL I do not think > they will change the license soon. > So I decided to go for GPL free for the 0.13 release of FreeCAD. > Fortunately Kongsberg, the company behind Coin3D, send a letter to all > its paying customer that they decided > to discontinue the commercial Version and plan to release the source > under BSD. This switch and > the removal of smaller libs (e.g. PyQt) will remove all GPL dependencies > of FreeCAD.
Wow, that's terrific news! > Unfortunately we have to wait for the Coin switch. But there is a > solution to this problem! Indeed. So we will have FreeCAD in Debian at last. Thanks Juergen! -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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