On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:13 AM, rawa [via LibreCAD]
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> Hello
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> I liked what the fast version, which is in Spanish language, the aesthetics,
> but I can read DWG, for us to implement an alternative product and that
> users accept it quickly, we need at least read and print DWG files, but to
> modify or create use another format. This LibreCAD plans in order to read
> DWG files? or maybe you can do today and do not know how?
> Thanks, I hope your answer.
Hi Ruben,
There has been preliminary work on DWG importing. Some information is here:
http://blog.librecad.org/2011/04/adding-dwg-support/However, there is a licensing problem with the library. A lot of the
LibreCAD code is GPLv2, but the gnu libredwg library is GPLv3+. Until
that licensing is worked out, we won't be able to include dwg support.
libredwg has indicated that they would release their library as
GPLv2+.
One of the LibreCAD developers did find some GPLv2+ dwg libraries, but
they aren't as complete as the gnu libredwg library.
And, in case someone says "Why don't you just release LibreCAD
GPLv2+?" We are in the process of converting it by licensing new
features, bug fixes, and qt4 porting as GPLv2+, but the base code that
we are building off of is QCad, which is GPLv2. We don't have the
copyright to QCad, so we respect the original author's license
(GPLv2).
Cheers,
Scott
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