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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 05:42:24PM +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Strk,
> 
> If there would be a good GPL based DWG library I would happily
> propose to use it - but unfortunately there isn't. The only
> partially viable alternative is the LibreDWG library
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/) which hasn't received an
> update since 2009.

Last commit is from 5 days ago, and previous 8 from March this year:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libredwg.git

There are currently 10 active members on savannah:
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libredwg

> Investing in that solution would probably mean an
> investment of a medium six-figure amount in Euros and then more to
> keep it alive. Unfortunately, unless a viable sponsor comes in, this
> isn't a solution.
> 
> Do you know other alternatives?

Campaigning to raise sponsorship for libredwg, and partecipate
in that drive ?

--strk;