The idea of LibreCAD 3was always to be full MIT without any GPL but due to a commit that added an GPL license that was way later discovered a part of it is now GPLed .
I believe the core engine should still be MIT ... (Sent from my mobile device, please forgive typos or brevity) > Op 25 dec. 2020 om 21:52 heeft kenre...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: > > > LibreCAD 3 is released under GPLv3+ like LibreDWG and use a different library > (less accurate). So honestly I don't think that the license is a problem, > GPLv3 is compatible eith other license like EUPL1.2 and other... > > The problems are probably other, for example the non existence of a simple > but serious alternative of CAD 2D, gtkcad, gcad, qcad, librecad, much > projects but not yet ready to use. > > Il 25 dic 2020 16:40 Ries van Twisk <r...@vantwisk.nl> ha scritto: > I believe the issue with libreDWG is how it was licensed. > > > (Sent from my mobile device, please forgive typos or brevity) > > On 25 Dec 2020, at 14:52, Duncan Lithgow <duncan.lith...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi there Reini Urban > > Over at osarch.org we've been talking about DWG support in free software and > how we can promote it. We think it's critical to free software gaining broad > adoption in the AEC sector. I was wondering if anyone could make or direct me > to some kind of statement on the current status of DWG support in free > software and what's needed to push it forward. > > As far as I am aware no free software projects use libreDWG out of the box. > That is something we at osarch.org would love to help change. > > If the reply comes on this list I will forward it, but maybe you would like > to make a presentation to one of our monthly meetings, an update to the > webpage (if needed) or help us write a news article we can promote on our > social media. > > I can see on the forum there has been plenty of work done - but I have no > idea what that means in practice. I think a quick email interview we can use > for an article might be the best start - how does that sound? > > Regards, Duncan
