Bug#617613: FreeCAD & OCTPL

[Adam C Powell IV]

On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 12:05 +0100, Juergen Riegel wrote:
> Hi together,
> I'm, together with Werner, the maintainer of FreeCAD.
> Based on the long history of license struggle with OCTPL I do not think 
> they will change the license soon.
> So I decided to go for GPL free for the 0.13 release of FreeCAD.
> 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.

Wow, that's terrific news!

> Unfortunately we have to wait for the Coin switch. But there is a 
> solution to this problem!

Indeed.  So we will have FreeCAD in Debian at last.

Thanks Juergen!

-Adam
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