[Bf-committers] libreDWG

[Stani]

Would the authors of elbeem not be willing to change to "GPLv2 or
later"? Probably they have no objections. Adding DWG support to
Blender would be a huge win.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM, François T. <francoistarlier at gmail.com> wrote:
> hum, seems like some Py binding has been started on this :
> http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibreDWG#Bindings_and_extensions
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libredwg.git/tree/bindings/python
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> 2010/8/17 François T. <francoistarlier at gmail.com>
>
>> bloody hell, it is complicated !
>> So maybe it would be better to compile the lib, then bind it w/ python and
>> make it an addon for easier distribution ?
>>
>>
>> François,
>>
>>
>> 2010/8/16 Ralph Giles <giles at thaumas.net>
>>
>> On 16 August 2010 10:14, Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > For audaspace it doesn't matter (LGPLv3 doesn't force anything on the
>>> rest of the code).
>>>
>>> LGPLv3 doesn't force anything on the rest of the code, but the GPLv2
>>> does force things on the LGPLv3. That is, the additional protections
>>> of software freedom incorporated from the GPLv3 in the LGPLv3 count as
>>> "additional restrictions" as far as the GPLv2 is concerned. I believe
>>> linking is thus forbidden under the GPLv2's strong-copyleft
>>> provisions, unless the library falls under the "system library"
>>> exception. Which wouldn't be the case for a dependency included in the
>>> blender tree. Therefore any GPLv2+ code gets upgraded to the GPLv3,
>>> and any GPLv2-only code is a problem.
>>>
>>> This was discussed recently in the context of the gnome project. See
>>> for example starting here:
>>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-July/msg00097.html
>>>
>>>  -r
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