First of all, thanks for the replies, both of you! On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Hans de Goede <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/27/2011 09:10 PM, Jochen Schmitt wrote: >> >> Am 27.12.11 18:57, schrieb Richard Shaw: >>> >>> I now have OCE approved and built, which uses a non-free license[2]. >>> Both FreeCAD and SMESH[3] are GPL licensed individually but they also >>> both link against OCE. >>> >>> >> If you want to link a GPL'ed application agains a non-free library the >> license of the application needs >> an exception to do so. Because you told, that the original upstream has >> linked FreeCAD agains this non-free >> library, I assume, that upstream has declared such an exception. >> > > Well they have done that at least implicitly I guess, it would be good > to contact them and ask for an explicit exception.
There's an ongoing discussion/war on their forums about the non-freeness of OCC/OCE. I'm trying to decide if I should put in my $0.02 or just wait for the dust to settle. >> So the license tag shoud be 'GPL with exception' and the package can go >> to the free branch >> of rpmfusion. > > > That should be non-free branch, if a package depends on other non-free > packages it must go to non-free itself. Thanks for the clarification. I thought it would go into non-free as well. Richard
