[Mageia-dev] oce (opencascade) license issues

[Pascal Terjan]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:23, Barry Jackson <zen25000 at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On 04/03/12 11:01, Michael Scherer wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> OK - Is that:  "--define section=non-free/release" (I never used that
> before)
>
> What about the license field in the spec? I suspect that the BS will reject
> anything that issues an rpmlint warning - and everything I have tried so far
> does. e.g. "LGPL-like"

For non free we have generic things like Freeware.
I haven't read the licence but if it is non free mentioning LGPL would
be misleading

> I am also somewhat confused by the modular approach used by Debian to
> package this. It seems over-complicated, but I may be missing the point.
> I opted for a single library, -devel and main.
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> The object is to provide needed Requires/BuildRequires for FreeCAD which I
> am also working on.
>
> Barry