Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: xpdf - A PDF file viewer for the X Window System https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207761 ------- Additional Comments From pertusus@xxxxxxx 2006-09-25 15:48 EST ------- Linking together is not the only reason why GPL and GPL-incompatible soft cannot cooperate. They shouldn't be in the same 'container'. Quoting the GPL: b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License. So, for example it could be argued that xpdf-japanese-2004-jul-27.tar.gz contains the GPL-licenced encoding files, and therefore cause the files in CMap, distributed alongside to be licenced under the GPL which is not possible. It is also explained here: If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. The first sentence, in my opinion describes what are the CMap files, "independent and separate works in themselves", so the GPL don't apply to them. However, as explained in the second sentence, "when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program", which is the case for CMap files bundled together with encoding files covered by the GPL, "the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it." Since the CMap cannot be distributed under the GPL, we have somewhere a licence violation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review