hi, with release 6.5 of OpenCASCADE changed license. i noticed, that https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Open_CASCADE_Technology_Public_Lice... 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.
best regards jiri kastner
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_Lice... 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
== Fedora Project
2011/3/29 Tom Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com:
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_Lice... 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.
Tom, did you notice that they changed the first paragraph (Obliged vs. encourage) ?
Was:
In short, Open CASCADE Technology Public License is LGPL-like with certain differences. You are permitted to use Open CASCADE Technology within commercial environments and you are obliged to acknowledge its use. You are also *obliged* to send your modifications of the original source code (if you have made any) to the Initial Developer (i.e. Open CASCADE S.A.S.). Complete text of the license is given below.
Now:
In short, Open CASCADE Technology Public License is LGPL-like with certain differences. You are permitted to use Open CASCADE Technology within commercial environments and you are obliged to acknowledge its use. We *encourage* you to send your modifications of the original source code (if you have made any) to our development team (Open CASCADE S.A.S.) because when you do so you contribute to the evolution of the product and many other people can benefit from your modifications.
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