GPL Web App containing Proprietary Flash Widget

Stephan February sfeb at osgdc.org
Thu Mar 26 04:00:05 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 10:38 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:39:14PM +0800, Stephan February wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have done extensive reading on the Fedora site regarding packaging,
> > and specifically "code vs. content". 
> > My employer is developing a web-application which will be licensed under
> > GPL or similar FSF-approved license. The web application will most
> > likely contain a proprietary (non-free) flash charting widget.  
> > Will our rpm-packaged web application, which will include the flash
> > widget be accepted into Fedora repository ? 
> 
> The flash widget would have to be excluded, or made open source & buildable
> with open source tools too. 
> 

Does this mean that if I were to use something like OpenFlash Chart,
which is LGPL (http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/) and
buildable using the MPL-licensed Adobe Flex SDK, that I could get the
Webapp + OpenFlashChart .rpm into the repo ?

Cheers
Stephan





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