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

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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Frank Warmerdam <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>

Oh great, good going. :(

and that has not been an issue up to now?  These file are not marked as such.

Well in any case, we will see what happens. I am not copying anything
directly from any of those headers.

mike