On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 02:25 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Adam C Powell IV a écrit : > > Greetings, > > > > I just sent in an RFP for Salomé, a very nice and highly capable > > engineering tool under LGPL. > > That was my goal when I started to look at packaging OpenCascade. But > there is a lot of work, as Salomé depends on a lot of libraries or > softwares that are not yet in Debian.
Really? The primary one seems to be OpenCascade, I don't see others that would be problematic. > > It depends on OpenCascade, which has a license which sounds DFSG-free. > > The license is at: http://www.opencascade.org/occ/license/ > > > > There were two discussions on the OpenCascade license last year:d > > > > * http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/06/msg00222.html > > concluded: the "In short" preamble description is not free, but > > the license itself is, so an upstream declaration that the > > preamble is not binding would make it DFSG-free. > > * http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/03/msg00286.html > > concluded that the WildMagic license is non-free, but did not > > conclude anything about OpenCascade. > > > > Aurelien, did you contact upstream and receive any reply on the preamble > > status? I don't see anything in WNPP, nor in unstable, nor in incoming. > > Yes I have contacted upstream about the preamble. They answered me > vaguely about the whole license, saying that it is clear that any > changes have to be sent back. Interesting. I think John Halton's point yesterday was correct: this is not a preamble (my fault for misusing the term), but an explanatory note. Based on that, I was getting ready to package and upload... If the upstream license is free, but upstream thinks it is not (or intends that it not be), then is it really free? > Please also note that in the sources, the copyright header of triangle.c > looks problematic. It is clearly non-DFSG free, and Open CASCADE doesn't > seems to have any copyright on this file. They never answered me about > that point. I see. Thanks for looking at it in such detail! Perhaps that one part can be stripped out. -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
