[Qgis-psc] Proposal that QGIS.ORG will become a member of the OpenDesign Alliance

[Hugo Mercier]

Hi,

On 15/12/2015 16:37, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi QGIS.ORG board,
> 
> As you may be aware, Jürgen I worked on a proposal to allow import of
> CAD data into QGIS. Jürgen provided an offer.
> 
> We plan to use the Teigha library of the OpenDesign Alliance (ODA)
> (https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha). It isn't GPL
> compatible and it requires a membership fee with annual renewal.

Interesting. How is it supposed to work here with the GPL ? With some
wrapping around a binary blob, à la NVidia ?
Is the integration planned in the core or as a plugin ?

Could you give some more information ?
I guess the initial problem is being able to read DWG files ?

To what extent the following specification cannot be reused to implement
a free driver ?
https://www.opendesign.com/files/guestdownloads/OpenDesign_Specification_for_.dwg_files.pdf