Re: need help with openscad's license

2012-02-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:46:04 +0100 Michael Wild wrote: [...] > AFAIK CGAL 4.0 will be GPL/LGPL. So, all OpenSCAD would need to do is > jump from 3.9 to 4 of CGAL. No idea how big that jump is, though... This looks like really good news! Thanks for pointing it out. I hope the switch won't turn up

Re: need help with openscad's license

2012-02-14 Thread Michael Wild
On 01/08/2012 10:22 PM, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 21:22:38 +0100 chrysn wrote: > >> hello debian-legal, > > Hello chrysn! > >> >> as a part of my intent to package openscad (#583476), i want to ask you >> for help with the package's licensing. > > Thanks for trying hard to solv

Re: need help with openscad's license

2012-01-11 Thread Walter Landry
chrysn wrote: > * technical solution > > if the modifications could be split out from OGL_helper.h by means of > c++, we would still link against the qpl version statically, but we > wouldn't have to ship qpl source code in openscad and could rely on it > being provided by the non-free bu

Re: need help with openscad's license

2012-01-09 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:17:39 +0100 chrysn wrote: [...] > On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:22:39PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Have you tried to persuade libcgal copyright holder(s) to re-license > > libcgal under the GNU GPL v2 or later, or under the GNU LGPL v2.1, or, > > at least, to dual-license

Re: need help with openscad's license

2012-01-08 Thread chrysn
hello, On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:22:39PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > Have you tried to persuade libcgal copyright holder(s) to re-license > libcgal under the GNU GPL v2 or later, or under the GNU LGPL v2.1, or, > at least, to dual-license it under the QPL and one GPLv2-compatible > license? i

Re: need help with openscad's license

2012-01-08 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 21:22:38 +0100 chrysn wrote: > hello debian-legal, Hello chrysn! > > as a part of my intent to package openscad (#583476), i want to ask you > for help with the package's licensing. Thanks for trying hard to solve this issue in the best possible way. > > as outlined in the

need help with openscad's license

2012-01-08 Thread chrysn
hello debian-legal, as a part of my intent to package openscad (#583476), i want to ask you for help with the package's licensing. as outlined in the itp, the package is gpl-2+ itself and depends heavily on libcgal, which is qpl and thus in non-free, which sends openscad to contrib. openscad has