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Evan Foss wrote:

> freecad is built on opencascade 

Yes, this is an open sore. Still, freecad is the best open source 3D CAD 
around by a large margin. The project is pretty active. Now, that freecad 
got indeed banned from Debian and other linux distros, I'd expect them to 
find some kind of solution to the licensing drama. Either, they convince 
OPEN CASCADE S.A.S. to double license their lib to a GPL compatible 
license, after all these years. Or they the freecad devs bite the bullet 
and replace opencascade by something GPL compatible.  OpenSCAD comes to 
mind... 


> which we can not integrate because of
> the license issues mentioned earlier in the thread.

There is no need to integrate opencascade when exporting to freecad. As I 
outlined above and Milan apparently tried, PCB would simply write python 
scripts.

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