[Fedora-legal-list] Linking of GPL-only and GPL-incompatible libraries

[Florian Weimer]

On 12/17/2013 10:06 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 12/17/2013 02:57 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
>> On 12/16/2013 01:00 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> On 11/21/2013 04:59 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
>>>> On 11/21/2013 03:42 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>>> What's the procedure for resolving such potential issues?  Post it
>>>>> here
>>>>> and ask for advice?
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> Okay, my concern is with the jbigkit (GPLv2+) dependency of libtiff
>>> (under its own, MIT-like license).  The GPLed code is used to decode
>>> JBIG1 parts of TIFF images.
>>
>> Okay. Is there a specific libtiff consumer that is GPLv2+ incompatible?
>
> Candidates are:
>
> graphviz (EPL), hylafax+ (libtiff and BSD with advertising), gnuplot.
>
> InsightToolkit (ASL 2.0) might qualify as well, depending on whether the
> GPLv3 upgrade can heal the original GPlv2 vs ASL 2.0 conflict.  Same for
> ghostscript (AGPLv3+ and Redistributable, no modification permitted).
>
> These are only direct dependencies.  Indirect dependencies will need
> some coding before I can come up with a list.

Are there any final comments on this matter?

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team