On 03/29/2011 03:15 AM, Jiri Kastner wrote:
hi,
with release 6.5 of OpenCASCADE changed license.
i noticed, that
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Open_CASCADE_Technology_Public_L... is quite
old.
on
http://www.opencascade.org/getocc/license/ is the new one.
can you, please, review this license if is still 'BAD' one?
thanks in advance.
The only changes since the last review (6.2) are:
* An updated mailing address for Open CASCADE S.A.S.
* A slightly reworded summary (which is not part of the license)
* A typo fix in section 4
* Removal of items referencing the version of the license within the
license itself
So, no, this license is still non-free. I have updated the Fedora wiki
with the 6.5 license.
It is worth noting that in 2009, I was told by several people involved
with Open CASCADE that it was their intent to work "toward a licence
change. This licence will definitely be a standard license fully
recognised by the oSS such as GPL/LPGL, just to keep it as simple as
possible."
However, that has clearly not happened. I suspect the fact that Ubuntu
accepted opencascade into Universe, even though it is clearly non-free,
is one of the reasons why they do not feel motivated to fix their license.
~tom
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