Re: Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 10:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:09:45PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit : * The statement that the copyright license is not a trademark license is not in conflict with the GPL, and explicitly stated as an option in

Re: Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hi Francesco, I contacted upstream a number of times a couple of years ago, and never got any reply. That said, a couple of people convinced me that OCTPL is (now) GPL-compatible, so FreeCAD is distributable, based on the following points: * The clause indicating You are also obliged to

Re: Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:09:45PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit : * The statement that the copyright license is not a trademark license is not in conflict with the GPL, and explicitly stated as an option in GPL-3. I don't think anyone believes GPL-3 is

Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-02-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:49:15 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] As a consequence, if nobody else helps me by contacting upstream and persuading them to re-license under the LGPLv2.1, I am afraid that two serious bugs have to be filed against freecad and gmsh. Nobody interested in helping

Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-02-13 Thread Walter Landry
cristian paul peñaranda rojas p...@kristianpaul.org wrote: Hello, I was checking opencascade in lenny was in non-free, but in queeze is in main-free now :D So i guess the new license is okay with debian legal and free sofware, but can anyone in shorts word explainme why please :) From

Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-02-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:06:47 -0800 (PST) Walter Landry wrote: [...] The license was never really an issue. There was an explanatory note which contradicted the license and seemed to add non-free terms, but that is not the license. As I summarized in