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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx> 
>Cc: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D export of PCB
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>On Sep 11, 2013 9:43 PM, "Cirilo Bernardo" <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hi Folks,
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>>  I was investigating options for exporting 3D VRML including the board and the best option I could find was to make use of libCGAL.  The catch of course is that I cannot add such a functionality within KiCAD itself because the CGAL license is incompatible (a mix of LGPL and GPL3).  If I make a stand-alone exporter which KiCAD can of course invoke via a 'system()' call, would it be possible to include the full source in the KiCAD tree with the stand-alone exporter being GPL3?
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>> - Cirilo
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>Your proposed path seems to adequately side step licensing problems (but you would have to write new board loading code, which is not technically optimal).
>But getting code into the tree has always been about more than licensing  compatibility as you know.  
>We have some project concepts brewing which you can also possibly benefit from.  Waiit a week, is my suggestion.
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Thanks Dick,  I'll wait a week and see what's new.  

Regards,
Cirilo