LibreCAD

LibreCAD is an open source program for two-dimensional CAD drawings. It is distributed as free software under the GPL and is currently available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. LibreCAD is a fork of the CAD software QCad.

Functions

The file formats used LibreCAD DXF, LFF, CXF and JWW. An export of drawings created is possible in JPG, PNG, PPM, SVG, TIF, BMP, XBM and XPM. The program is available in over 20 languages ​​, including German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish and Japanese.

As both those units of the metric as well as the Anglo-American system of measurement may be used.

Versions

Current release version of the program is 2.0.3 of 23 March 2014.

The official Linux package sources contain a 1.0.x version, but not the latest release version 1.0.4 of November 2013. However this can be updated via private repositories.

GPLv2 vs. GPLv3 incompatibility

As part of the introduction of GPLv3 2007, this license has been extended so that it was in principle incompatible with the previous version. This means that vorhandenene projects, which for some reason still can not upgrade to GPLv3 or the " or later" clause have not incompatible with GPLv3 software and can not source code with this replace (at the most known of the Linux kernel). Since LibreCAD (and FreeCAD ) GPLv2 - licensed source code contains, the GNU LibreDWG library, which was changed to the GPLv3, now no longer be used. The attempt at the FSF to achieve a relicensing or conveying failed.