A Dilluns 21 Abril 2008, Adam C Powell IV va escriure: > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 21:25 +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I haven't had much time for this recently, but my todo list consists > > > of: > > > > > > * Switch to the tarball used by FreeBSD (and soon Gentoo) at: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/thierry/ * > > > Conduct a thorough license/copyright "audit" of the tarball to make > > > sure we have everything documented in the copyright file. * Upload to > > > non-free, will probably take several iterations to get in. > > > * Separate out the non-free bits. > > > * Upload to main with non-free parts in separate package, again > > > will probably take several iterations. > > > * Use Jason Kraftcheck's scripts to separate it into a few > > > packages, and re-upload. > > > > Sounds like a good plan in general, but will the FreeBDS tarball stay > > up to date with the upstream version? Well, maybe it's too early to > > worry about that.
I have followed this thread with a lot of interest. I don't think the OpenCascade was free in the way to put it in debian, so to me it's a bit .... I don't know in a polite words ... <unpolite> touch my b.. </unpolite> than you spend a lot of hours in package some huge soft to nonfree. Well, I know, they have their rights. But this kind of half-license half-open half-nonfree are more problematic (and close) than open (free) and feasible. Howeber, as all in this life has a lot of buts: - if we have opencascade, another great free soft that use OpenCascade could be inside. - if we have opencascade, maybe they want to relax their license .... I don't know... just my feelings in this. We can try to begin a campain to ask to OpenCascade about a change in their licences .... but this is utopia. [...] > > Yes, but I can't guarantee I can spend much time on opencascade. I'm > > interested in free tools for 3D CAD, and as a first step I would like > > to be able to display a 3D models from IGES files. Apparently FreeCAD > > ( http://juergen-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php?title=Main_Page ) > > can do this, but it needs Opencascade to compile. > FreeCad seems a great soft. I have tested the deb package (with opencascade inside. It would be nice to have a deb package ... at least in contrib. Leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
