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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

The definitive answer is here:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility

Basically if the existing license is "GPLv2 or later" there is no GPL-GPL
incompatibility. GPLv3 does not affect our use of other libraries so is
not an issue regarding linking to other libs; although static linking may
in principle be a problem, it is an entirely theoretical problem since
the source code for all libraries we use are freely available.

FreeWRL is awful. I haven't looked into the backend of OpenVRML though;
I've only tried the viewers based on it - the viewers have an awful
interface but that doesn't say anything of the backend.

- Cirilo


On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FreeWRL is pretty disgusting compared to Openvrml and its also GPLv3.
> Anyone know on the KiCAD GPLv2 mixing with GPLv3 code? There's like a
> billion different answers on mixing that stupid license.
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:55 PM, LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In response to a message written on 19.02.2015, 23:22, from Mark Roszko:
> >>
> >> I've been considering implementing OpenVRML for giggles which uses
> >> Boost::spirit for parsing. It's basically templating on steroids kind
> >> of C++ but can parse both standards fully. Except its GPLv3 so I don't
> >> know about license compatibility horseshit that comes with GPL.
> >
> > What about? :
> > git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/freewrl/git freewrl-git
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > LordBlick
> >
> >
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