Posted by Wookey on May 31, 2013; 6:06pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Reaction-to-the-new-QCAD-Community-Edition-tp5708149p5708162.html

Rallaz - can you expand upon why you think that licence text makes the software not DFSG-free, and thus non-distributable in, for example, Debian.

That licence text, and the GPL 3 exception text look fine to me. Obviously any proprietary scripts and plugins would need to be removed from a Debian version, but unless these are really vital that should be OK and does not comprise a fork.

Is the problem that the fonts used are non-free (the .cxf files you mention). I guess a program with no text isn't much use. But drop-in replacements for the fonts (and icons?) (using what was done for QCAD 2, I presume) doesn't constitute a fork, and should be easy to keep in sync and share code.

Or am I missing something?

Anyway, great news about QCAD3 and the possibility of integrating libreDWG. I look forward to trying it.