On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Matt Shepit wrote: > I found an explanation for this quite some time ago, but now cannot seem to > do so. I know that that OpenCASCADE's licence is not compatible with > BRL-CAD, but I can't seem to find the reasoning why this is. Does anybody > know why exactly this is?
Matt, I don't have the references handy any longer, but my recollection is that the OpenCASCADE license entails a few additional requirements for redistribution. GNU licensing (both GPL and LGPL) expressly prohibit additional/new requirements making them effectively incompatible within a collective work. >From BRL-CAD's perspective, a more recent issue is that OpenCASCADE only has a >few features of interest now that we have support for STEP import and >BREP/NURBS representations. It wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to pull in >an entire CAD kernel for just a few items, and in the areas where we overlap >BRL-CAD's implementation is generally better/faster/integrated. We'll make >faster progress cleaning up our existing core libraries and developing our >Geometry Engine API. Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
