Incompatibility of OpenCASCADE libraries license with GPL

[Boris Pek]

Hi all,

I am writing a message to Open CASCADE S.A.S. about incompatibility of
Open CASCADE Technology Public License with GPL (see [1] for example).
This message will be send using contact form on their web site.

But I want to keep all discussion publicly. So may I use your mailing list
for this goal? (I will enter this address into "Email" field or will indicate
it in the text)

Best regards,
Boris

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/698527

[Thomas Paviot]

2013/1/31 Boris Pek <tehn...@yandex.ru>

Dear Boris,

There already had been a lot of discussions related to OCCT Public License and incompatibilities with OSI approved free licenses. The OpenCascade Company is already aware of this complaint from the community users, I'm not sure you'll bring anything more than OCC already knows. But you can of course cc this mailing list when sending your message through the official website, as well as the reply you will get. Another possibility to have this public discussion is to use their dev portal (http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=home/forum).

Best Regards,

Thomas

[Boris Pek]

2013-01-31 17:39, "Thomas Paviot" wrote:
> О©╫Dear Boris,
>
> О©╫There already had been a lot of discussions related to OCCT Public License and incompatibilities with OSI approved free licenses. The OpenCascade Company is already aware of this complaint from the community users, I'm not sure you'll bring anything more than OCC already knows. But you can of course cc this mailing list when sending your message through the official website, as well as the reply you will get. Another possibility to have this public discussion is to use their dev portal (http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=home/forum).
>
> О©╫Best Regards,
>
> О©╫Thomas

Thanks a lot for the link! I opened new theme there:
http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=node/525

I just tried to summarize current problems with OCCT Public License in Debian
and do not know if it is useful.

Best regards,
Boris