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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:54:38PM +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Strk,
> 
> So why aren't FreeCAD, LibreCAD, Blender and Inkscape using
> LibreDWG? As far as I understand, it is because some of their other
> components/libraries are GPLv2 only and thus they can't mix? I can't
> claim that I understand all of these licensing issues. But
> apparently, for some reasons the majority of the LibreGraphics
> software cannot use LibreDWG. This is what the say at their
> websites:
> 
> http://freecadweb.org/wiki/?title=Licence#GPL2.2FGPL3.2FOCTLP_incompatibility
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreCAD#GPLv3_vs_GPLv2_controversy

So it looks, but those articles don't state clearly which dependencies
are GPL2-only so I cannot easily check if that's still the case.

> Apparently LibreCAD created their own library, which is available at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdxfrw/

And they made it GPL2-only. That's a bad move really :(

> About the funding drive: this funding drive is about the Free
> Software Foundation (FSF) in general, not for the LibreDWG project,
> unfortunately. You can find the same funding drive on
> http://www.gnu.org/ and other GNU websites. Unfortunately, FSF,
> doesn't treat LibreDWG as a priority project.

Oops, you're right. Sorry for the confusion.

> So basically, GRASS is the only piece of software using LibreDWG -
> according to
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibreDWG#Who_uses_it.3F
> because the information about LibreCAD is outdated.

That seems to be the case, yes.

--strk;