No distribution of seaview if linked to pdflib.
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
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