Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:53:29 -0500 Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, Hello! :) I just sent in an RFP for Salomé, a very nice and highly capable engineering tool under LGPL. As a personal note, I can say that Salomé looks like a pretty interesting tool: I already knew about it (even

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-20 Thread John Halton
On 20/12/2007, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This clause attempts to make the license legally binding even to people who merely use or download the software (sections 2, 3, and 13 restate the same concept). This goes beyond what copyright laws (at least in some jurisdictions) allow

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 02:25 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Adam C Powell IV a écrit : Greetings, I just sent in an RFP for Salomé, a very nice and highly capable engineering tool under LGPL. That was my goal when I started to look at packaging OpenCascade. But there is a lot of work,

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:37:07 -0500 Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 02:25 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: [...] Yes I have contacted upstream about the preamble. They answered me vaguely about the whole license, saying that it is clear that any changes have to be sent back.

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:45:28 + John Halton wrote: On 20/12/2007, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This clause attempts to make the license legally binding even to people who merely use or download the software (sections 2, 3, and 13 restate the same concept). This goes beyond