Re: Different versions of GPL
Posted by
maqifrnswa on
Jan 25, 2012; 5:14pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Different-versions-of-GPL-tp5429963p5430783.html
2012/1/25 Lisandro D. N. Pérez Meyer [via LibreCAD]
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> On Mié 25 Ene 2012 09:40:29 usted escribió:
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> > The only way I can see this happing (I am not a license guru) is that we
> > create a seperate program that uses LibreDWG to convert data into DXF and
> > we read that, save will be the other way around. But IMHO this is hackish.
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> Well, IMHO this is not hackish and indeed it may be a good design choice. This
> would help to better modularize LibreCAD, leaving some functionality to
> external tools, specially if they are command-line based. Kind of unix
> principle, I guess.
The FSF opinion: creating a fork and run tool for the explicit purpose
of circumventing GPL is not ok. However, this conversion tool would be
a great stand-alone project for the reasons Lisandro mentioned. There
are many people, projects, companies out there that have lots of one
type of file they'd like to convert to another. In that case, the tool
is useful on it's own and LibreCAD is using it as well.
~Scott