Bug#764814: freecad downloads and executes code

[Anton Gladky]

forwarded 764814 http://freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=1785
thanks

Yorik, there is a patch attached on FreeCAD bugtracker. Can it be
applied?

Thanks

Anton


2014-10-11 19:43 GMT+02:00 Yorik van Havre <yorik at uncreated.net>:
> Hi,
>
> This download happens the first time a user wants to use the DXF
> import/export feature. Since the license of our DXF exporter is GPL, and
> other components of FreeCAD prevent from linking to GPL code (namely
> OpenCasCade and Coin3D) (the whole story is another Debian bug), we found
> this trick of moving the dxf exporter out of the FreeCAD sources, and
> placing it online, so it can be downloaded by users the first time they need
> it. We control that resource ourselves (FreeCAD developers), so I don't
> think there is a higher risk than if we included that code directly in the
> source...
>
> I really don't know what else we can do... Would showing a dialog saying:
> "Warning! FreeCAD will now download python code for the dxf exporter"
> satisfy you?
>
> Yorik
>
>
>
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