@Martin what are the other CAD packages you're thinking of? I would like to contact them.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 6:05 PM R.van Twisk <[email protected]> wrote: > The idea of LibreCAD 3was always to be full MIT without any GPL but due > to a commit that added an GPL license that was way later discovered a part > of it is now GPLed . > > I believe the core engine should still be MIT ... > (Sent from my mobile device, please forgive typos or brevity) > > Op 25 dec. 2020 om 21:52 heeft [email protected] het volgende geschreven: > > > > LibreCAD 3 is released under GPLv3+ like LibreDWG and use a different > library (less accurate). So honestly I don't think that the license is a > problem, GPLv3 is compatible eith other license like EUPL1.2 and other... > > The problems are probably other, for example the non existence of a simple > but serious alternative of CAD 2D, gtkcad, gcad, qcad, librecad, much > projects but not yet ready to use. > Il 25 dic 2020 16:40 Ries van Twisk <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > I believe the issue with libreDWG is how it was licensed. > > > (Sent from my mobile device, please forgive typos or brevity) > > On 25 Dec 2020, at 14:52, Duncan Lithgow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi there Reini Urban > > Over at osarch.org we've been talking about DWG support in free software > and how we can promote it. We think it's critical to free software gaining > broad adoption in the AEC sector. I was wondering if anyone could make or > direct me to some kind of statement on the current status of DWG support in > free software and what's needed to push it forward. > > As far as I am aware no free software projects use libreDWG out of the > box. That is something we at osarch.org would love to help change. > > If the reply comes on this list I will forward it, but maybe you would > like to make a presentation to one of our monthly meetings, an update to > the webpage (if needed) or help us write a news article we can promote on > our social media. > > I can see on the forum there has been plenty of work done - but I have no > idea what that means in practice. I think a quick email interview we can > use for an article might be the best start - how does that sound? > > Regards, Duncan > >
