On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/26/2015 3:20 PM, Mark Roszko wrote: > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html > > > > GNU's own explanation. > > > > Thanks for the reference. This definitely makes things a bit clearer. > Since this is directly from the FSF and gnu.org, I feel better about any > difference between the licenses. > > My wording of the initial message must have been vague. AGPLv3 does not prohibit commercial use, but SINTEF as the copyright holder only allows AGPLv3 use if the application is not a commercial cloud service. I think the conditions are fair; many of the algorithms involved in NURBS manipulation are not trivial and you pay a small fortune to use third party software which manipulates such data. So as I've said before, if anyone wants to use the library within a cloud service the license compliance is their issue to sort out, but in all cases I know of (after all I don't know of anyone running KiCad as a cloud service) this will not be a problem, not even for corporate users like me who use KiCad as their tool for commercial designs. Alternatively you can require me to make modifications to the IGES library so that it can be built without SISL, but I'd really prefer to use SISL and anyone who wants to run a cloud service can either sort out a license or remove IGES export support. - Cirilo
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