[Gmsh] [Elmerdiscussion] Re: Re: double surfaces/lines between adjacent bodies

Adam C Powell IV hazelsct at debian.org
Fri Mar 13 15:47:57 CET 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:19 -0700, Brenda Ellen Make wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please be careful not to tread on Rule 2: All engineering programs must 
> not have a smooth work-flow.
> 
> (There seems to be some question whether OpenCascade is really open at all?)
> 
> http://www.salome-platform.org/forum/?groupid=12&forumid=13&thread=1053
> http://www.opencascade.org/occ/license/

FYI, Debian just accepted OCC last week into main after a four-month
review process.  So a major distribution has endorsed Open CASCADE as
free software.

Whether it is GPL-compatible is an open question.  Fortunately Elmer's
copyright statement has a GPL linking exception.

Hope this helps,
-Adam
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