Re: [Swftools-common] Licensing issue with GPL

[Mohamed El Morabity]

2010/11/11 Matthias Kramm <address@hidden>
>
> 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
>
>
I tried to package swftools with the most features enabled possible,
so I'm linking agains pdflib.