On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:45:15 -0400 "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is a result of: > "If you add terms to a covered work in accord with this section, you > must place, in the relevant source files, a statement of the > additional terms that apply to those files, or a notice indicating > where to find the applicable terms." Correct. In the case of the traditional third-party-license-compatibility practice, this is taken care of by inclusion of the non-GPL license notice in the relevant source file (which might be the complete license text or a reference to some license text contained in another file). > I always recommend people put the actual terms rather than a notice, > because "LICENSING" and "README.LICENSE" have a terrible habit of > getting lost or forgotten, then I have no idea what exceptions you > meant for this code to have, and I end up trying to find you in > several years time and forcing you to remember the licensing to code > you forgot you wrote at all. :) More generally, I have found from experience that global licensing notices (though important) should not be used to the exclusion of licensing notices in individual source files. (In a paper I co-authored, http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html there is a footnote suggesting that top-level notices are preferable to 'file-by-file' notices; I no longer find this convincing.) > >From a Fedora perspective, any package that add exceptions to the > >GPLv3 should be > noted in its license tag with: > > License: GPLv3 with exceptions > > or > > License: GPLv3+ with exceptions > > ... depending on whether the license attribution states v3 only or v3 > or later. Perhaps additional permissions and additional requirements should be treated differently (or maybe a special tag is needed only if there are additional requirements?). - RF _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
