Hello Juergen, This is great news! Although it would be nice to get OCC under a GPL compatible license, it's anyway good to get Freecad back into Debian.
Best, Teemu On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Juergen Riegel <free...@juergen-riegel.net> wrote: > Hi together, > I'm, together with Werner, the maintainer of FreeCAD. > Based on the long history of license struggle with OCTPL I do not think they > will change the license soon. > So I decided to go for GPL free for the 0.13 release of FreeCAD. > Fortunately Kongsberg, the company behind Coin3D, send a letter to all its > paying customer that they decided > to discontinue the commercial Version and plan to release the source under > BSD. This switch and > the removal of smaller libs (e.g. PyQt) will remove all GPL dependencies of > FreeCAD. > > Unfortunately we have to wait for the Coin switch. But there is a solution > to this problem! > > Jürgen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org