On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:20:17 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:06:19 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > SALOME links with > both GPL-licensed (PyQT) and GPL-incompatible libraries (OCE). [...] > > Possible solutions, in descending order of desirability: > > (A) Open CASCADE S.A.S. should be contacted and persuaded to > re-license Open CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-and-v3-compatible terms. [...]
*** Breaking news!!! *** As some of you may already know, it finally happened! :-) The upcoming version of Open CASCADE Technology (version 6.7.0) will be licensed under the GNU LGPL v2.1 (+ some minor additional permissions). This decision was announced on the 21st of November 2013, at the SALOME User's Day and is now also announced on the web site: http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_25600/?forum=19 http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=node/908 For a long time, a good number of people have been asking Open CASCADE S.A.S. to re-license. Personally, I have pestered them since April 2009 (!). We finally succeeded! :-) This certifies that my superpower is: being a pain in the neck! ;-) What does this mean for bug #680738 ? Please note that the previous versions of Open CASCADE Technology are *not* affected by the re-licensing, unfortunately. As far as I know, the road-map is: 0) OCCT (Open CasCade Technology) 6.7.0 will be released under LGPL-2.1 [ this should happen soon ] 1) a new version of OCE (Opencascade Community Edition) based on OCCT 6.7.0 will be released with all the changes (with respect to OCCT) re-licensed under LGPL-2.1 [ the plan is described in https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oce-dev/LPi2gm7-m9E/ayDty-rMl50J ] 2) this new version of OCE will be packaged for Debian 3) once salome-gui depends on this new version of Debian package oce, this bug report will be closed 4) everyone will celebrate! \o/ I am looking forward to seeing all this happen. Bye! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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