Would the authors of elbeem not be willing to change to "GPLv2 or later"? Probably they have no objections. Adding DWG support to Blender would be a huge win.
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM, François T. <[email protected]> wrote: > hum, seems like some Py binding has been started on this : > http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibreDWG#Bindings_and_extensions > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libredwg.git/tree/bindings/python > > > > 2010/8/17 François T. <[email protected]> > >> bloody hell, it is complicated ! >> So maybe it would be better to compile the lib, then bind it w/ python and >> make it an addon for easier distribution ? >> >> >> François, >> >> >> 2010/8/16 Ralph Giles <[email protected]> >> >> On 16 August 2010 10:14, Martin Poirier <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > For audaspace it doesn't matter (LGPLv3 doesn't force anything on the >>> rest of the code). >>> >>> LGPLv3 doesn't force anything on the rest of the code, but the GPLv2 >>> does force things on the LGPLv3. That is, the additional protections >>> of software freedom incorporated from the GPLv3 in the LGPLv3 count as >>> "additional restrictions" as far as the GPLv2 is concerned. I believe >>> linking is thus forbidden under the GPLv2's strong-copyleft >>> provisions, unless the library falls under the "system library" >>> exception. Which wouldn't be the case for a dependency included in the >>> blender tree. Therefore any GPLv2+ code gets upgraded to the GPLv3, >>> and any GPLv2-only code is a problem. >>> >>> This was discussed recently in the context of the gnome project. See >>> for example starting here: >>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-July/msg00097.html >>> >>> -r >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ____________________ >> François Tarlier >> www.francois-tarlier.com >> www.linkedin.com/in/francoistarlier >> > > > > -- > ____________________ > François Tarlier > www.francois-tarlier.com > www.linkedin.com/in/francoistarlier > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- Phatch Photo Batch Processor - http://photobatch.stani.be SPE Python IDE - http://pythonide.stani.be _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
