Bug#617613: "FreeCAD not in Testing"

Adam C Powell IV hazelsct at debian.org
Fri Dec 16 02:02:18 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 18:15 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Hi
> 
> as we have been asked about this license problem and not yet provided an
> answer:
> 
>  Either the licensing is changed so that the incompatibility no longer
>  is there (by either getting the license changed, or exceptions in the
>  other parts, or by using replacement software which does not have
>  license problems, whatever works), or failing that, the package(s) need
>  to go from Debian.

I'm sorry, can you be more specific?  You have concluded that the
OpenCASCADE Technology Public License (OCTPL) is incompatible with GPL?
Which part(s) of OCTPL is/are incompatible?

Or do you agree with Francesco's analysis based on the preamble, which
is not legally binding?

Thank you,
Adam
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