Hey Y,all
I seem to remember someone on this list looking for CAD software. I thought I should send this along just in case I'm right and someone remembers who it was that was looking.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Please add libreCAD to the Fedora repositories. Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:25:03 -0700 From: Steve linuxguy123@gmail.com Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
I request that libreCAD be added to the Fedora repositories. http://librecad.org/cms/home.html
libreCAD is the take over of what used to be QCAD. QCAD has been forked into a closed source application and work on the open source application appears to have ceased.
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Mark LaPierre wrote:
To: Mail List CentOS Users centos@centos.org From: Mark LaPierre marklapier@aol.com Subject: [CentOS] LibreCAD FOSS
Hey Y,all
I seem to remember someone on this list looking for CAD software. I thought I should send this along just in case I'm right and someone remembers who it was that was looking.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Please add libreCAD to the Fedora repositories. Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:25:03 -0700 From: Steve linuxguy123@gmail.com Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
I request that libreCAD be added to the Fedora repositories. http://librecad.org/cms/home.html
libreCAD is the take over of what used to be QCAD. QCAD has been forked into a closed source application and work on the open source application appears to have ceased.
Might have been me asking about this Mark.
If you fork GPL code into closed source, is that against the GPL?
Keith
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Yes, its possible, although i could be wrong below.
If i own a project, code written entirely by me and released it under GPL or any other license, i'm still free to change the license to proprietary/restricted etc. However there are a few things which would have changed since the original relese
1. Any one holding the gpl'ed source code can still use/distribute/modify it etc. So someone can come up with a fork and continue with the project 2. I cannot take modifications submitted by other into my new closed source project as others would have submitted them under GPL license, unless i have the permission of the contributors. This includes modification to any fork or contribution to the original source code before the license change
hth,
jb
On 11/11/2012 11:51 AM, joel billy wrote:
Yes, its possible, although i could be wrong below.
If i own a project, code written entirely by me and released it under GPL or any other license, i'm still free to change the license to proprietary/restricted etc. However there are a few things which would have changed since the original relese
- Any one holding the gpl'ed source code can still
use/distribute/modify it etc. So someone can come up with a fork and continue with the project 2. I cannot take modifications submitted by other into my new closed source project as others would have submitted them under GPL license, unless i have the permission of the contributors. This includes modification to any fork or contribution to the original source code before the license change
hth,
jb _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Just because someone has published source code does not mean that it is subject to the GPL. Many organizations make up their own license which may, or may not, be in compliance to the FSF guidelines.
I don't know what license Qcad community edition was released under, but I do know that several features of the professional edition were/are not available in the community edition because not all of the source code was released. Certain portions of the code remained proprietary. Even Microsoft has some open source software.
If LibreCAD is able to compete, toe to toe, with Qcad Pro that's a great thing. I'll support Qcad, Fluendo, or any other company that produces a first class product at a reasonable price that runs on my favorite OS with my cash purchases.
If companies don't see a financial incentive to develop software for Linux they won't. Linux will remain a third class OS in the eyes of the consumer, if they are even aware of it's existence. Companies won't make what people won't buy.
When I speak with potential users I always tell them to list their required functions, then find software that supports their needs, then read the package to find out what OS supports their software.
Until the software that people want to use runs on Linux they will not choose Linux for their OS. Face the facts. People are not interested in setting up VMs or using WINE to get their required functions to work. Crazy people like me will go to extremes but Joe Average is not going there.
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