Free software replacement for Autocad.
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Greetings ladies and gentlemen, I need recommendations for a good replacement for Autocad.
Thank you.
Thank you
Apparently FreeCAD is nonfree. It's based on Open CASCADE whose license is apparently nonfree by FSF standards:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_CASCADE_Technology
"The Fedora project does not consider[10] Open Cascade to be free software (free as in freedom) according to the Free Software Foundation definition, and therefore does not include it in their distribution."
http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=License
"In the Fedora project OpenCasCade is listed "non-free". This means basically it won't make it into Fedora or RedHat. This means also FreeCAD won't make it into Fedora/RedHat until OCC is changing its license."
Contrary to Arch, Parabola doesn't include neither Open CASCADE nor FreeCAD. Trisquel on the other hand includes both.
I don't have time right now to research more on this, but it seems that Open CASCADE and FreeCAD should be removed from the repos.
You seem right, I've investigated it and it seems that there is a solution to use freecad without non-free stuff.
I've found this:
https://github.com/tpaviot/oce/wiki
As a replacement for the Opencascade technology, perhaps we should ask the Trisquel development team to replace Opencascade instead of simply removing opencascade and freecad from the repos.
¿What do you think?
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