Apparently FreeCAD is nonfree. It's based on Open CASCADE whose license is apparently nonfree by FSF standards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_CASCADE_Technology

"The Fedora project does not consider[10] Open Cascade to be free software (free as in freedom) according to the Free Software Foundation definition, and therefore does not include it in their distribution."


http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=License

"In the Fedora project OpenCasCade is listed "non-free". This means basically it won't make it into Fedora or RedHat. This means also FreeCAD won't make it into Fedora/RedHat until OCC is changing its license."


Contrary to Arch, Parabola doesn't include neither Open CASCADE nor FreeCAD. Trisquel on the other hand includes both.


I don't have time right now to research more on this, but it seems that Open CASCADE and FreeCAD should be removed from the repos.

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