LibreDWG

Week recap — 4 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Intel publishes open source projects for AV1 encoding and image denoising

Week recap — 23 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Manuel Bastioni Lab add-on for Blender gets a community fork

Week recap — 16 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender's video sequencer gets a new maintainer

Week recap — 9 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

NVidia publishes PhysX SDK physics engine as an open source project

LibreDWG revived, starts getting regular releases
by Alexandre Prokoudine

In an unimaginable turn of events, LibreDWG, the free/libre library for opening proprietary CAD files in the DWG file format, is becoming a stellar example of a FOSS project.

LibreDWG drama: the end or the new beginning?
by Alexandre Prokoudine

There's a can of worms we opened this year: the unfortunate situation with support for DWG files in free CAD software via LibreDWG. We feel, by now it ought to be closed. We have the final answer from FSF.

LibreDWG controversy: 2 months later
by Alexandre Prokoudine

In late January we posted an in-depth story that explained the lack of support for DWG files in free/open source CAD software. Now it's time for an update.

What’s up with DWG adoption in free software?
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Having been asked recently about reasons for lack of DWG support in free software, we started digging and very nearly fell into a pitch black abyss.