Re: [Swftools-common] Licensing issue with GPL

[Matthias Kramm]

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

I can do so, sure. However, since you're probably packaging swftools
as binaries (?), do you actually need this, given you're not actually
doing the linking against pdflib?

Matthias