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(see the last meeting at +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2012/mageia-dev.2012-11-06-20.09.html">http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2012/mageia-dev.2012-11-06-20.09.html</A> for +</I>><i> more information). Note that the SFLC does not charge for its advice (but +</I>><i> accepts donations). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Any comments will be welcome. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I think the only change is that I changed the opening line to "Dear Sir/Madam". +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Regards, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Shlomi Fish +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -------------- +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Dear Sir/Madam, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I am writing you this letter on behalf of Mageia ( <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/en/">https://www.mageia.org/en/</A> +</I>><i> ), which is a community-developed, operating system, based on the +</I>><i> GNU/Linux system and with a free-and-open-source (FOSS) core. We would like to +</I>><i> ask, whether and how we can distribute pre-built packages of a GPLed program +</I>><i> (in our case, the video editor cinelerra) after it was linked to a library +</I>><i> with some proprietary and non-GPLed code (in our case, faac). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The longer story is that there has been some demand for including faac +</I>><i> ( <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/</A> - the Freeware Advance Audio Coder), +</I>><i> which is both non-free in part and patent encumbered, in our distribution, +</I>><i> and to prepare versions of the appropriate packages for which it is an +</I>><i> optional dependency. These packages, such as cinelerra ( +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://cinelerra.org/">http://cinelerra.org/</A> - a video editor), are licenced under +</I>><i> the GPL, which restricts which code its distributed binaries may be legally +</I>><i> linked to. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So our question is: assuming we package faac as a package, can we still +</I>><i> provide pre-made and binary packages of GPLed programs that use it? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> We would appreciate any definitive legal insights on the matter. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Sincerely yours, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> — Shlomi Fish, on behalf of the Mageia development team. +</I>><i> +</I> +Wouldn't it be acceptable if the GPL code were *optionally* linked to +non-GPL code, that is linked to the non-GPL code iff it were available ? +(that is, if installed) +We could pose that specific question as well. +Just an idea ... + +-- +André +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019863.html">[Mageia-dev] 2nd Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019878.html">[Mageia-dev] 2nd Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19876">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19876">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19876">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19876">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |