What could be great is if we could set up a poll for this? That would perhaps be more effective that a thread of +1 entries?
On Mar 11, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Pythonocc-users mailing list Pythonocc-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pythonocc-users
