Linking and licensing question

[Hans de Goede]

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