[cad-linux] Re: CAD with server/client architecture
- From: Lee Fickenscher <elfick@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 19:29:07 -0400
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 06:03:32PM -0500, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> The "toolbox" approach would be very healthy for the CAD industry. Right
> now,
> its kitchen-sink-this and kitchen-sink-that and no one system fully works
> with any other. Creating a common core to handle the database would
> facilitate the interoperability and creating a common kernel to provide
> geometry functions would eliminate repeated work (I think openCascade is
> primarily focused on this second task, so maybe components of it or existing
> projects could be utilized?).
Hear! Hear! The common core is exactly the thing. I keep refering to it
as the engine, but core/kernel/engine whatever.
OpenCASCADE has some type of public license, but it is not GPL. I've
read the license, but all such legaleese mystifies me. I'm not sure what
gotchas lurk in all the mumbo jumbo.
-Lee
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