Re: [Swftools-common] Licensing issue with GPL

[Mohamed El Morabity]

2011/1/6 Chris <address@hidden>:
> pdflib is not a mandatory dependency for building/using pdf2swf.
> Linking against it is OPTIONAL, and a choice made at compile time.
> If the installer finds it, it links against it.
I'd never deny it. I've just pointed above that pdflib is only needed
to build the pdf2pdf binary. Without pdflib, it is not built. That was
what I meant by enabling "as many features as possible", unless
pdf2pdf is a completely useless tool and so it clutters up the sources
^^.

> Maybe a conscious decision should be made, not to link swftools
> against any software or library that isn't covered by the GPL?   There are 
> several suitable alternatives out there.  Maybe they
> should be given due consideration instead?
Of course it would be the best way. And I will build swftools without
pdflib, as well as by wisdom than by spite. And so without pdf2pdf,
the apple of discord of this thread ^^

> With all due respect, isn't this simply a case of unnecessary
> pedantism? ;o)
Well... About what?