[wlandry at caltech.edu: Re: opencascade license in squeeze]

Wolfgang Spraul wolfgang at sharism.cc
Sat Feb 13 20:13:26 EST 2010


Cristian Paul,

thanks a lot for checking! Open CASCADE being in Debian main-free now is
indeed good news, although for some reason the RedHat legal team (and thus
Fedora Electronic Lab) still disagree:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458974

We'll see..., thanks again for checking,
Wolfgang

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:08:41AM -0500, cristian paul peñaranda rojas wrote:
> 
> 
> cristian paul peñaranda rojas <paul at kristianpaul.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was checking opencascade in lenny was in non-free, but in queeze
> > is in main-free now :D
> > 
> > So i guess the new license is okay with debian legal and free
> > sofware, but can anyone in shorts word explainme why please :)
> 
> From the changelog at
> 
>   http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/opencascade/news/20090307T154958Z.html
> 
>    * Upstream replaced Triangle by a free implementation,
>      thus external-triangle.patch is removed as well as
>      dependencies against libtriangle-dev.
>    * Remove ros/src/FontMFT/*.mft files, these font files
>      have no sources.  (As a side effect, closes: #487116)
>    * All non-free bits have thus been removed, and opencascade
>      is moved from non-free into main.
> 
> The license was never really an issue.  There was an explanatory note
> which contradicted the license and seemed to add non-free terms, but
> that is not the license.
> 
> Cheers,
> Walter Landry
> wlandry at caltech.edu
> 
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