[Swftools-common] Commercial license for swftools

[Samuel Langlois]

Hello

Would it be possible to get a commercial license for SWFTools, from its 
copyright owner(s) ?
We would like to redistribute it, but not under the GPL.

Here is a bit of context: Alfresco is an Enterprise Content Management 
system, and we have been shipping SWFTools executables (unmodified) as 
part of the installer, calling them on the command line to perform some 
transformations on documents. Alfresco is dually licensed: LGPL and 
Commercial.
We read http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation and we 
think that we are not infringing the GPL by doing this.
But lately, more and more commercial customers are getting nervous about 
the GPL components, so we are investigating whether we could 
"retro-license" SWFTools under a commercial license, without changing 
our software.
So, it's not a legal decision but a business one: we are willing to pay 
to avoid pleading to lawyers about the GPL.

Would that be possible? I've seen the question asked several time, but 
the latest answer I could find was 'Not yet', back in January 2007.

Thank your
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Samuel Langlois