X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <1400454023.865.1.camel@AMD64X2.fritz.box> Subject: Re: [geda-user] Opencascade license change.. From: Stefan Salewski To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 01:00:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1400339148.2235.13.camel@pcjc2lap> References: <1400339148 DOT 2235 DOT 13 DOT camel AT pcjc2lap> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 16:05 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > This doesn't have a very prominent position on their site, but: > > "Since the version 6.7.0 Open CASCADE Technology is available under > GNU We should mention that Kai-Martin already told us: On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 17:08 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: 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. > > ---<)kaimartin(>---