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

[Marko Knöbl]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Juergen Riegel
<FreeCAD at juergen-riegel.net> 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.

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