[Freegis-list] Re: [GRASS5] free dwf?

[Steve Halasz]

On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 17:52 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all.
> Does anybody know about this news? Seems encouraging, even though the licence 
> is probably the usual puzzle.
> http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=5520675
> pc

I'm not well versed in these things, but this clause may not meet the
Debian Free Software Guidelines:

1.1.1 (a) Use the Licensed Software for development, research, internal,
educational, or commercial purposes;

I think it may discriminate against fields of endeavor not explicitly
listed here. Can a non-profit use it?

I don't know if there's any relationship between DWF and DXF, but I
noticed that DXF import/export is a Google Summer of Code project for
Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/)

Steve

> 
> [...]
> This Release Candidate version of the DWF Toolkit 7 provides: APIs for reading 
> and writing 3D DWF from any application, simplified 2D interfaces, and 
> cross-platform support (Windows, Mac, Linux). Use the DWF Toolkit to build 
> applications that create and view 2D and 3D DWFs, object properties, DWF 
> Composer markups, and more... This toolkit allows you to develop applications 
> that read or write multi-sheet 2D or 3D drawings in DWF format. 
> The toolkit contains C++ libraries that aid in the generation, reading, and 
> parsing of DWF files. You can use it to work with DWF files without having to 
> understand their complete underlying data format. This toolkit contains 
> support for the DWF file as defined with the release of AutoCAD 2006.
> [...]
> Gentoo/Red Hat Linux Binaries
> A tar ball intended for Gentoo or Red Hat Linux programmers using the GNU 
> compiler. This tar ball includes header files, binaries, sample programs, and 
> the DWF specification.
> dwftoolkit-7.0.1-bin-linux24-x86-gcc323.tar.gz (29MB)
> 
> Apple Macintosh OS X Binaries
> A zip archive intended for Apple Macintosh OS X programmers using the GNU or 
> XCode compilers. This zip archive includes header files, binaries, sample 
> programs, and the DWF specification.
> dwftoolkit-7.0.1-bin-OSX-ppc-gcc33.zip (41MB)
> 
> Source Code
> A tar ball intended for programmers on other platforms. This tar ball includes 
> header files, cpp files, sample programs, and the DWF 
> specification. There are no binaries to make the download smaller.
> dwftoolkit-7.0.1-src.tar.gz (11MB)