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

[Frank Warmerdam]

address@hidden wrote:
> 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. 

Mike,

While not too relavent to you, that code was moved to spike specifically
because it included a modified include file from dwgdirect.

Best regards,

> 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.

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