Le 08/07/2012 03:32, Francesco Poli a écrit : > On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 15:46:11 -0600 Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > >> Le 06/07/2012 10:54, Francesco Poli a écrit : >>> On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:16:58 +0200 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >>> >>>> Does open cascade is a subsitairi of commissariat a l energie atomique(cea) >>>> ? > [...] >>> I don't know whether there's any relationship between OPEN CASCADE >>> S.A.S. and CEA. >> CEA is involved (probably from the start) in the SALOME development >> (which is based on OpenCASCADE). > Mmmh, this is something... > > Are CEA people aware that SALOME binaries are legally undistributable > due to multiple licensing issues [1], among which the > GPL-incompatibility of Open CASCADE Technology? FYI, CEA and EDF are developing together SALOME for a while. From the start, it is based on OpenCascade.
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/619662 > > If they are aware, are they worried about these issues? I don't know. I don't work for EDF or CEA but I guess they don't care much about incompatibilities between free licenses. I think what really matters is having a full free CAD software stack. These problems seems minor to me and not worst all the problems. > Are they disappointed that salome got removed from Debian because of > various RC bugs, among which its licensing issues? They are pushing to see Salome into Debian. However, EDF & CEA are big corporations. I don't know if it gets to the lawyers. Sylvestre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
