[Mageia-dev] oce (opencascade) license issues

[Barry Jackson]

On 04/03/12 11:01, Michael Scherer wrote:
> 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.

It also has a single tainted BuildRequire on pkgconfig(glw).