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Commercial / Non-Open License available?

Dear all, we would like to use Open Cascade in a commercial project; unfortunately, for certain reasons, we cannot integrate software that is LGPL licensed (the main reason being that "our customer does strictly not allow it", meaning there is no way around this). Is there a "commercial" license ava

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read access to github

It it really needed to sign the agreement to get read access to the occt github ? cheers Author

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To sign or not to sign?

Hello, Executive summary: I did not yet sign the CLA and see no reason to sign it in a near future. I explain why in this post, and propose an arrangement. Disclaimer: this is my own opinion about CLA, it is not a position statement reflecting OCE members' view. First of all, a CLA is not mandatory

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Relicensing OCCT

Dear all, I'm very pleased to inform you that the next version of Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) - 6.7.0 - will be licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1. This relicensing will not change the license of already published OCCT versions up to 6.6.0. Author Brunier-Coul

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OCC license

Hi All, Can I link OCC with my app statically, without opening the source of my app? I would love to contribute to OCCs development, however, I don't wan't to open my applications source code. Istvan

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Incompatibility of OpenCASCADE libraries license with GPL

Hi, I know it is not first message related to this topic and possibly not last. But problem is really hot and important. Many excellent opensource projects chose OpenCASCADE platform for developing their engineering/scientific software. But even when these programs have licenses compatible with Open

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Evolution of the CLA

Dear all, Given the discussion at http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=node/30 , especially following the remark from Roman and Thomas about the perpetual nature of the CLA, we plan to provide users with a procedure for terminating a CLA. This would be done by sending a request to us, like you can

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