Hi Spot, you will probably remember that you were checking the OpenCascade Public License few moth ago. Now the question about its free/nonfree status was opened on the upstream forum and it would be a good chance to express our (or better RH Legal's) reasons that led to the decision that it is non-free and possibly make upstream to resolve them. I am including the mail I got from Debian packagers. URL of the discussion is http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_15859/ related Review Request is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458974 Dan
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- Subject: Re: OpenCASCADE .deb: separated out triangle
- From: Denis Barbier <bouzim@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:00:26 +0100
- Cc: Jason Kraftcheck <kraftche@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Tautges <tautges@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@xxxxxxxx>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Francesco Poli <frx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@xxxxxxxxx>, Denis Barbier <barbier@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx>, Tom Matukas <sakutam@xxxxxxxxx>, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Frederic Lehobey <Frederic@xxxxxxxxxxx>, arthur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On 2008/8/13 Adam C Powell IV wrote: [...] > Second and more importantly, Dan Horák tells me that RedHat has referred > the OCTPL to their legal team for consideration as a free license, > toward inclusion in Fedora. In my opinion, it's QPL-ish, and should be > considered free. But RedHat legal carries a lot more weight than I do, > so I'd like to wait until they've rendered an opinion, hopefully > positive, and include that in the copyright file. If they come back > negative, then oh well, I'd try Debian contrib anyway but would probably > have to settle for non-free. [...] Hi all, I raised some license issues at http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_15859/ Dan, maybe you could explain in this forum what needs to be done to have an OpenCascade package in Fedora? If you do not know who is Roman Lygin, he gave some details about himself on his first blog post, see his signature. In my opinion, this is a good opportunity to solve those licensing issues. Denis
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