Re: [Swftools-common] Planning to package swftools for Debian

[Matthias Kramm]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:11:00PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote:
> I'm planning to package swftools for Debian and I have a couple of
> questions.

That's good news. Which version are you going to package? 0.7.0?

> The sw is clearly marked as GPL, but just to be on the safe side, is
> there any non-free code in the swftools-0.7.0 package?

It's all free.
Both my own code as well as the packages contained in swftools (xpdf
and libarts) are licensed under the GPL and (for libarts) LGPL.

> Is there any special reason that RFX_CHECK_FREETYPE,
> RFX_CHECK_FONTCONFIG, RFX_CHECK_MING and RFX_CHECK_PYTHON macros are not
> in the m4/ directory? 

Check out the CVS version, which does contain all the necessary scripts
in m4/.

(Thanks for pointing this out, however; I guess it's a bit misleading
 that right now the development snapshots do contain the configure.in
 script, but not the m4 files to run it through autoconf. I guess
 I'll either remove the configure.in from the snapshots, too, or add
 the scripts in m4/ to them, in order to not confuse anybody)

> Is there any documentation (other than the online examples) for using
> the rfxswf library and the Python wrapper? I mean something that could
> be included in the sw package (like earlier there were some example
> codes)?

Nothing I'm aware of. Especially documentation for the Python wrapper is
still lacking, unforunately.

Greetings

Matthias