Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:09:45 -0500 Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Hi Francesco, Hi! > > I contacted upstream a number of times a couple of years ago, and never > got any reply. Please try again, the company seems to have been more responsive in recent times. As I said, I successfully used their con

Re: Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 10:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:09:45PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit : > > * The statement that the copyright license is not a trademark > > license is not in conflict with the GPL, and explicitly stated > > as an option

Re: Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:09:45PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit : > * The statement that the copyright license is not a trademark > license is not in conflict with the GPL, and explicitly stated > as an option in GPL-3. I don't think anyone believes GPL-3 is > inco

Re: Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hi Francesco, I contacted upstream a number of times a couple of years ago, and never got any reply. That said, a couple of people convinced me that OCTPL is (now) GPL-compatible, so FreeCAD is distributable, based on the following points: * The clause indicating "You are also obliged to se

Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-02-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:49:15 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > As a consequence, if nobody else helps me by contacting upstream and > persuading them to re-license under the LGPLv2.1, I am afraid that two > serious bugs have to be filed against freecad and gmsh. Nobody interested in helping fre

Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-02-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:06:47 -0800 (PST) Walter Landry wrote: [...] > 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. As I summarized in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/200

Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-02-13 Thread Walter Landry
cristian paul peñaranda rojas 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

opencascade license in squeeze

2010-02-12 Thread cristian paul peñaranda rojas
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 :) Saludos Cristian Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ.