Re: [Swftools-common] licensing term for using swf tools

[Matthias Kramm]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 07:31:20PM +0530, kumar rajesh <address@hidden> wrote:
> In our commercial product we are using only the output files given by
> the swf tools and we do not redistribute swf tools in our solution.
> What kind of licensing we need to do that?

You don't need licensing for that-
You're free to use the swf output files for whatever you see fit.

> If we modified the source code of the swf tools then are we the
> proprietor of the code we have developed?

No, you are not!
All the authors involved in the development of swftools will still
have the full copyright for all the code sections they were involved
in.
Also, any version of swftools that you *distribute* and that does
(or does not) contain modifications by yourself must be accompanied
with the full machine readable source code, see the text of the
GPL license.
If you only *use* it (not distribute it), e.g. to create swf files,
then you don't have any obligations.

> How do we donate for swftools?

See item #2 in the FAQ:
    http://www.swftools.org/faq.html
.

Matthias