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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:58:31AM +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> We are aware that you cannot mix/link QGIS/OGR/Teigha. For that
> reason Jürgen proposed to write a separate application published
> under a non-GPL based license (kind of a local server) that provides
> the CAD data. QGIS would not link to Teigha directly, but this other
> application would. QGIS would then connect to this service to get
> access to the CAD data.
> 
> This should work - otherwise you wouldn't be allowed to connect to
> OWS services that are not provided by a GPL-based OWS server
> software - which as far as I know is no problem.

I think the main point in Vincet mail is about being perfectly
legit to distribute binary QGIS versions linked against  LibreDWG
as it'd make a GPL3 boundle.

What's missing from LibreDWG that makes it a non-interesting solution
at this moment ? How much would it cost to enhance it to add those
missing parts ?

--strk;