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<H1>[Mageia-dev] 2nd Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).</H1>
<B>Shlomi Fish</B>
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<PRE>Hi all,
I'm including here a new draft of a letter we are planning to send to the
Software Freedom Law Center ( SFLC- <A HREF="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">http://www.softwarefreedom.org/</A> ) about
faac vs. cinelerra. (see the last meeting at
<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
more information). Note that the SFLC does not charge for its advice (but
accepts donations).
Any comments will be welcome.
I think the only change is that I changed the opening line to "Dear Sir/Madam".
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing you this letter on behalf of Mageia ( <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/en/">https://www.mageia.org/en/</A>
), which is a community-developed, operating system, based on the
GNU/Linux system and with a free-and-open-source (FOSS) core. We would like to
ask, whether and how we can distribute pre-built packages of a GPLed program
(in our case, the video editor cinelerra) after it was linked to a library
with some proprietary and non-GPLed code (in our case, faac).
The longer story is that there has been some demand for including faac
( <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/</A> - the Freeware Advance Audio Coder),
which is both non-free in part and patent encumbered, in our distribution,
and to prepare versions of the appropriate packages for which it is an
optional dependency. These packages, such as cinelerra (
<A HREF="http://cinelerra.org/">http://cinelerra.org/</A> - a video editor), are licenced under
the GPL, which restricts which code its distributed binaries may be legally
linked to.
So our question is: assuming we package faac as a package, can we still
provide pre-made and binary packages of GPLed programs that use it?
We would appreciate any definitive legal insights on the matter.
Sincerely yours,
— Shlomi Fish, on behalf of the Mageia development team.
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