Re: Linking and licensing question
Hi,
On 12/27/2011 09:10 PM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
Am 27.12.11 18:57, schrieb Richard Shaw:
> I now have OCE approved and built, which uses a non-free license[2].
> Both FreeCAD and SMESH[3] are GPL licensed individually but they also
> both link against OCE.
>
>
If you want to link a GPL'ed application agains a non-free library the
license of the application needs
an exception to do so. Because you told, that the original upstream has
linked FreeCAD agains this non-free
library, I assume, that upstream has declared such an exception.
Well they have done that at least implicitly I guess, it would be good
to contact them and ask for an explicit exception.
So the license tag shoud be 'GPL with exception' and the
package can go
to the free branch
of rpmfusion.
That should be non-free branch, if a package depends on other non-free
packages it must go to non-free itself.
Regards,
Hans