On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 03:49:03PM +0100, Mohamed El Morabity <[email protected]> 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
