Re: The Seaview package : improvements, freedom and upgrade

[Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>]

Hi, 

Am Samstag, den 18.03.2006, 20:30 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:
> #357585: seaview: New upstream version available
> However, all this discussion on main/contrib may be worthless, because
> the new upstream version depends on a non-free lib which is not even
> packaged in Debian.

You mean pdflib.

I seriously doubt that is is legally possible to distribute seaview if
linked against pdflib (though debian-legal is a far better address for
this question). 

Reason: 
seaview's author has chosen the GPL for seaview.cxx. While it is fine
for an end user to do such a thing (i.e. linking GPL code against
pdflib), one can't distribute this software anymore without violating
the GPL.

Regards
	Thomas