On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Николай <niki.spah...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/3/10 BRUNIER COULIN Daniel (OPEN CASCADE) > <daniel.brunier-cou...@euriware.fr>: >> I'm glad to see this activity on such project because I've tried 6 years >> ago to convince OPEN CASCADE (the company) to develop such component, >> without any success. >> >> For my information, in case of OCC license change, which one would you >> prefer ? >> I'm asking because the one compatible with the OPEN CASCADE business >> model is LGPL. > > For small software company LGPL is best choice.
Just the other day (2009-03-04) this came up on the openmanufacturing list- apparently there was this brief opportunity to get OpenCASCADE to consider alternative licensing or something? http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/browse_frm/thread/15a7fee406c023ef/3151d83c53087d44?#3151d83c53087d44 here's the link: http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_15859 quoting Charles Collis ( http://adciv.org/ ) from OM: On Mar 4, 4:48 am, Charles Collis <charles.col...@gmail.com> wrote: > Open Cascade is a very capable open-source geometry kernel, useful for all > manner of engineering software, including full-blown CAD - and could have > far-reaching benefits for open manufacturing in the future if properly > harnessed (seehttp://www.opencascade.org/showroom/demos). However they use > a home-grown open-source license which is causing problems and confusion for > developers and is also limiting the amount of useful improvements they get > back from the community. There are also ambiguities about its GPL > compatibility. > > There is a thread on their forum where this is being discussed and includes > responses from Fedora / Red Hat legal. > > Roman Lygin, a former Open Cascade project manager, now at Intel, is asking > for people to speak up to help estimate the importance of this issue. So if > anyone wants to add their (constructive) voice to try and help persuade Open > CASCADE to make the transtition to a mainstream open source license (ideally > LGPL), then the more the merrier... > > Charles. - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507 _______________________________________________ Pythonocc-users mailing list Pythonocc-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pythonocc-users
