[Mageia-dev] oce (opencascade) license issues

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Sun Mar 4 12:01:58 CET 2012


Le vendredi 02 mars 2012 à 23:46 +0000, Barry Jackson a écrit :
> I have been working on oce, but need help deciding on where to put it 
> and with what license.
> Oce is the OPENCascade Community Edition.
> Earlier versions are/were packaged by Mdv and Fedora, and recently Deb 
> has included it.
> It seems from OPENCascade's own license literature to be LGPL-like with 
> differences. (but rpmlint is not happy with that).
> Fedora consider it non-free, but since all the source is available and 
> redistributable I don't know why, so ignore my comment on line 1 of the 
> spec.
> There are links in the spec to license references.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458974 
( notably the comment from #10 ). I would push this to non-free, because
that would be a problem for a company.
-- 
Michael Scherer




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