KiCAD is used by a large amount of companies for professional jobs. That is it.can not tell anything about KiCAD
Electronics design can be as much as expensive as machine engineering.
KiCAD is used by a large amount of companies for professional jobs. That is it.can not tell anything about KiCAD
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well the internet wizard is wrong (not really a surprise), GPL is compatible with LGPL and does not restrict swapping the LGPL software. The LGPL2 text explicitly allows distributing LGPL code as GPL:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.0.en.html wrote:3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library.
In other words, not the same at all. LGPL software cannot distribute GPL-licensed code along with it and continue being LGPL.
As @easyw-fc already mention, realthunder have relicensed his fork to GLPv3. So this seems not to be gray area, all valid.prokoudine wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:25 pm The realthunder fork is in the gray legal area, as someone already mentioned
that repo is just the assembly 3 addon, realthunder's fork license is here: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/ ... ly/LICENSEuser1234 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:38 pm As @easyw-fc already mention, realthunder have relicensed his fork to GLPv3. So this seems not to be gray area, all valid.
https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_ ... er/LICENSE
This is not true, everyone has licensed their portion of code under the LGPL2 license (or something less restrictive in some cases), which explicitly allows using the GPL license instead (or newer versions of LGPL) since those are compliant of the terms of the LGPL too. No permission is needed for this, what we would need permission for is for example to relicense as MIT or BSD since those are less restrictive.wandererfan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:48 pm To release FreeCAD as GPL so as to include GPL s/w, every FreeCAD copyright holder would have to agree to relicense their portion of the code as GPL. Anything that was not re-licensed would have to be replaced.
You are pointing at the LICENSE file of the Assembly 3 workbench while discussing FreeCAD.user1234 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:38 pm As @easyw-fc already mention, realthunder have relicensed his fork to GLPv3. So this seems not to be gray area, all valid.
https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_ ... er/LICENSE