[cad-linux] Re: DWF support to LX-Viewer

The discussion here last week of DWF started another discussion with the 
LX-viewer group members about getting some sort of feature development list 
started.  I have not pulled even a draft of this list together, but when I do 
and it has been discussed by the group members we will post it to our web 
site.  All of that is background to my next statement which is that at this 
point I expect that the draft of my development list will show DWF support as 
a task to be implemented.  I have a major new feature in the works right now, 
but in my own mind I have penciled in dwf suport immediately following.  All 
of this of course is subject the group members approval and also to the 
caveat below.  

I also checked out the DWF license terms last week and was somewhat put off 
by them.  Guy has pretty much summarized my concerns.  Some are more 
important to me than others, but the one that really bothered me is the one 
where any changes or bug fixes I  might make to the source code belong to 
Autodesk.  This is significantly different than the GNU public license where 
any changes I make to GNU code belong to me, but are freely available to 
anyone to use and make further improvements on.  After thinking about this 
for a week or so I decided that if I can get the Autodesk sources to compile 
without any changes or modifications for Linux then I'll try (with the 
group's approval) to implement the DWF read and write capability.  I don't 
honestly think that any code tweaks or changes I make will affect the 
profitability of Autodesk by even one penny, it is the principle that bothers 
me.

Andy

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