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On Jan 25, 2012, at 12:14 PM, showard314 [via LibreCAD] wrote:
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.
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.
These tools already exists and are available for Windows, Linux and OSX from the open design alliance.
What I am trying to say, is that it's a lot more work for the LibreCAD team if we make these conversion utility and beable
to support all DWG features reliably and that might/properly mean we need to create our own intermediate file format.
Life would be a lot easer of FSF would re-licence OpenDWG to GPLv2 or higher….
That said, OpenDWG only supports up to AutoCAD 2004 and not higher so it might be buggy anyways..
I am open to anything, and if somebody stands up and makes that stand aline conversion tool,
I am all for having that located under the LibreCAD umbrella.
~Scott