Bug#617613: freecad in fact does not link to incompatible libraries

[Adam D. Barratt]

[Added upstream support address to CC]

Hi,

Coin3D developers - this relates to a license issue in the Debian Linux 
distribution concerning the linking of Coin3D to code licensed in a 
GPL-incompatible manner. Later releases of Coin3D were relicensed under 
a BSD license, but it is unclear whether this applies to earlier 
releases of the code.

Please could you confirm whether you consider version 3.1.3 to be 
released under the BSD-style license as well, or if this version is 
still covered by the GPL license it was originally released under?

On 05.03.2013 08:06, Anton Gladky wrote:
> I reported a removal bug #702193 [1].
>
> Looking again at coin3-library and trying to get a newer version, I
> realized, that the latest available version is the same as in
> Debian, 3.1.3. This version, seems, has been released in 2010,
> when the license was GPL.
>
> The last commit into VCS was in December 2011, one of them - changing
> the headers to BSD-license [3]. But after that time there was no 
> release.
> And, it seems, the project is abandoned.

Regards,

Adam