Bug#617613: freecad: links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

[Andres Cimmarusti]

> Fortunately Kongsberg, the company behind Coin3D, send a letter to all its paying customer that they decided to discontinue the commercial Version and plan to release the source under BSD. This switch and the removal of smaller libs (e.g. PyQt) will remove all GPL dependencies of FreeCAD.

This may be true, but their website still shows the paid and GPL
version. Is there any updates regarding this? It's been months since
this 'news'.

> Actually there is some chance for the license  to be changed. Daniel Brunier
> Coulin from OpenCASCADE SAS announced that they are "currently considering
> relicensing OCCT to LGPL".[1] According to him the decistion will be made in a
> couple of weeks.
>
> [1] https://mail.gna.org/public/pythonocc-users/2012-01/msg00019.html

It's been well over two weeks and the opencascade license shows no
change. Any news regarding this? the mailing thread shows no updates.