I wonder what it would take to just buy the company and turn it GPLv2 It would make one heck of a kickstarter.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ben Finney <[email protected]>wrote: > Francesco Poli <[email protected]> writes: > > > I am personally trying hard to persuade Open CASCADE S.A.S. (the > > company behind Open CASCADE Technology) to re-license Open CASCADE > > Technology under GPLv2-compatible terms, in order to solve this issue > > once and for all. > > I have been pestering Open CASCADE S.A.S. since April 2009... > > I'm familiar enough with Francesco to know that his “pestering” is > likely quite polite. > > > But I need help from other people. > > *Many* other people. > > As I repeatedly stated in the bug log [6] of #617613 (especially, > > please read at least the original report [10]), other people should > > contact Open CASCADE S.A.S. and try to persuade them to re-license Open > > CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-compatible terms (for instance, under > > the GNU LGPL v2.1). > > To be persuasive, these people will need to avoid hectoring or righteous > messages. Persuasion is difficult, and some of you will feel passionate, > but making the recipient of your message defensive will not help. > > Cementing an entrenched position, or making the OpenCAD copyright > holders dismissive of people pestering them, will remove options. > > Anyone contacting them about this, *please* keep a calm and civil tone. > Remain upbeat and express your support for GPL-compatible terms so that > FreeCAD can be redistributed legally. > > -- > \ “[I]t is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he | > `\ thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus, _Discourses_ | > _o__) | > Ben Finney <[email protected]> >
