On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 01:22:05PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote : > Hi, > > Am Samstag, den 18.03.2006, 20:30 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > > #357585: seaview: New upstream version available > > However, all this discussion on main/contrib may be worthless, because > > the new upstream version depends on a non-free lib which is not even > > packaged in Debian. > > You mean pdflib. > > I seriously doubt that is is legally possible to distribute seaview if > linked against pdflib (though debian-legal is a far better address for > this question).
Intresting... I knew that one can not link a proprietary program to a GPLed library, but did not suspect that the reverse was also true. There are two threads about pdflib in the archives of debian-legal: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/07/msg00549.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/04/msg00000.html The second thread corroborates your doubts. (copy sent to the bug and therefore to the maintainer) Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
