Bug#618968: Ping - netgen license problems

[Arne Wichmann]

begin  quotation  from Francesco Poli (in <20120620232034.ae7eb33bd4efe458d8ed7647 at paranoici.org>):
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:38:00 +0200 Arne Wichmann wrote:
> > This serious bug is now open without any action for more than a year. Is
> > that supposed to change?
> 
> Hi Arne,
> thanks for following up on my bug report.
> 
> I am personally trying hard to persuade Open CASCADE S.A.S. to
> re-license Open CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-compatible terms.
> This is solution (A), as described in my original bug report.
> I have been pestering Open CASCADE S.A.S. since April 2009...
> 
> Unfortunately, latest news [1] is that they postponed the decision
> (again!).
> 
> [1] http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=node/31#comment-63
> 
> However, several months have passed since February 2012 (at least for
> some definition of "several"!).
> Hence, I've recently resumed my persuasion effort.
> 
> But I need help from other people.
> *Many* other people.
> As I repeatedly stated in the bug log [2] of #617613 (especially,
> please read at least the original report [3]), other people should
> contact Open CASCADE S.A.S. and try to persuade them to re-license Open
> CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-compatible terms (for instance, under
> the GNU LGPL v2.1).
> If nobody helps me in this persuasion struggle, I am afraid that the
> only solution will be to remove a number of packages from Debian, which
> is always a sad defeat!

So, at least as far as I can see, there are a number of things to be done
in various time frames:
- Alert enough people to the problem (via debian-user, messages in the
  packaging, other mailing lists and similar means)
- Remove the package from debian if nothing happens.

cu

AW
-- 
[...] If you don't want to be restricted, don't agree to it. If you are
coerced, comply as much as you must to protect yourself, just don't support
it. Noone can free you but yourself. (crag, on Debian Planet)
Arne Wichmann (aw at linux.de)
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