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

[Tom Callaway]

On 03/04/2014 07:51 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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?

Not yet. Still looking into this.

~tom

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