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Respectfully the freecad program is more like an interface to the
opencascade kernel. I don't think the freecad people could just code a
replacement because they suddenly felt like it. Using freecad which is
totally depended on opencascade for this feature is effectively adding
opencascade as a dependency.

Has anyone looked at BRL-Cad integration. They have API's and
import/export functions for most formats. BRL-Cad is totally open
source.

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak
<knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---<)kaimartin(>---
>
>



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