What about incorporating(PR) your topo solution; seems to work better than the others ? Got a feeing LINK should be fielded with TOPO (simultaneous)! --???
TOPO continues to be a FC weakness!
What about incorporating(PR) your topo solution; seems to work better than the others ? Got a feeing LINK should be fielded with TOPO (simultaneous)! --???
I very much hope so too. But the Link PR is going to be huge by itself. I'll follow it with the topo naming PR if Link is accepted.
That is still too early to tell. We still need a solver with suitable license first. But at least asm3 can run in official FC if my PR is merged.
Can you distribute a workbench under a different license? Then you can just have your workbench with the same license as the solver you use. I guess you can still use the addon manager to distribute your workbench with a different license.realthunder wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 10:32 pm
That is still too early to tell. We still need a solver with suitable license first. But at least asm3 can run in official FC if my PR is merged.
Yes, asm3 is actually under the same GPL as Solvespace for exactly this reason.mfasano wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 5:04 pmCan you distribute a workbench under a different license? Then you can just have your workbench with the same license as the solver you use. I guess you can still use the addon manager to distribute your workbench with a different license.realthunder wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 10:32 pm
That is still too early to tell. We still need a solver with suitable license first. But at least asm3 can run in official FC if my PR is merged.
I actually sent a mail to the creator with a question regarding this a few days ago, awaiting response.
I don't plan to change SolveSpace's license to the LGPL--I deliberately
wish and intend for anyone benefiting from this code to also share
theirs. Of course, FreeCAD does that in practice; but since the license
they've chosen doesn't actually require that, I don't see any way to
offer a compatible special exception license that isn't just equivalent
to re-licensing SolveSpace under the LGPL.
Sorry I can't offer a better suggestion here. I'm glad FreeCAD at least
has an extension model that has made this work possible (and I guess
that's perhaps well-developed for that reason, since I understand that
FreeCAD has hit this GPL/LGPL issue with other libraries too).