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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: [geda-user] open cascade license resolved
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:08:56 +0100
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I just got aware, that the licensing issues of open cascade have been 
resolved: http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=node/908

Consequently, the 3D modeling application freecad, which got banned from 
the repos due to license incompatiblity has been re-included in Debian.

This is relevant to geda, since a very viable way to connect pcb to the 
world of 3D CAD is an import/export filter to freecad. Proof of principle 
code of such a filter was presented to this list about a year ago. 
However, development seemed to have slowed down. I hope, the resolved 
license issue inspires new efforts toward a usable version of the filter. 

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