Hello, recently I've stumbled over the licensing issues between LibreDWG, LibreCAD and FreeCAD and I was shocked. And forced to write to this mailing list. Sorry in advance if you think this isn't appropriate.
Here is my appeal: Please stop hesitation in relicensing LibreDWG in order to enable promising and actively developed projects to include it into their code! I'm supporting Free Software Foundation as Associate Member since several years in order to foster the use and availability of free software. As full time engineer, I see a particular lack of free CAD software and was glad that DWG-support was declared a high priority mission by FSF. Therefore, I'm really unhappy with the situation of projects not being able to bring free CAD software forward just because of license incompatibilities between GPLv X and GPLv Y. This is not what I want to achieve by supporting FSF and free software projects. I don't want to start a discussion over the pros and cons of different GPL versions, legal issues and why we should use them - I think it's basically the same license (GPL). I just want that a piece of free software licensed under GPL can be used by another free software licensed under GPL to ultimately provide a great and FREE functionality to end users. Maybe, I'm not the only one thinking this way and I hope it is possible to convince the LibreDWG copyright holders. Thanks for all your efforts. Kind regards, Jean-Peer, FSF member #8429
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