Re: [libredwg] [news] Autodesk and Open Design Alliance Reach Agreement for Autodesk DWG Trademarks

[address@hidden]

Any exposure to liability is mine personally. This is not an official
libredwg project.

I am interested in getting OGR to use libredwg, and would work on
doing that by working on the API.

I will put some time into this as I have resources available.
If opendwg wants to sue me, I am ready to fight them.

The code that I am deriving this from
(http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/spike/dxfdwg)  seems to have a bsd like
open license and mentions no IP restrictions. My work is just to
resolve compiler errors from compiling against my dummy types, in my
opinion, there can be no IP claims against me for doing that.

I dont even see that there is any "substantial portions of the
Software" in my header files, so I will license it under the AGPL 3.0.

mike


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Frank Warmerdam <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> Wow,
>> Libogr uses dwgdirect, now that is really worth working on.
>>
>> here are some I found :
>> http://code.google.com/p/gdal-kml/
>> http://code.google.com/p/tf-net/
>>
>> here is some sketchup plugin for dwg:
>>
>> http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/gsu_mac/K-Input_and_Output/Import_and_Export/IO-DWGDXFExport.htm
>>
>> I will start on gdal, I will build header files for all gdal/ogr usages of
>> dwgdirect and rebuild the header files from that.
>
> Folks,
>
> I will note that I think the DWGdirect code in OGR has not kept up with
> recent releases of DWGdirect though I might be wrong.  I personally
> think the DWGdirect API is fairly clumsy and large and it would not
> necessarily be a good idea to tie to it.
>
> I also would suggest you think twice before exposing yourself to the
> DWGdirect / ODA code and interfaces for fear of them making some sort of
> IP claims against libredwg, though perhaps this is something you have
> already considered.
>
> Best regards,
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