Re: [Swftools-common] Licensing issue with GPL

[Chris]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:49:03 +0100
Mohamed El Morabity <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently packaging swftools for the Linux distribution Fedora.
> During the review process of my work (see
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1252), a licensing issue
> was detected: SWFTools (GPL licensed) can be linked to pdflib which is
> not free. In such a case, an explicit exception to the GPL must be put
> in the distributed sources, as described here:
>    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs
> 
> So is it possible to put such an exception in sources, to comply with
> the GPL?

With respect, I think you are referring to the wrong section of the GPL faq.
The part which deals with the use of non-free libraries, is here, 

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FSWithNFLibs


Regards,



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Chris
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