Hi, I'm having a look at packaging ChemDoodle Web Components, a Javascript set of classes to manage chemical structures in web pages. Now, the license is GPLv3+ but they have an additional exception detailed in: http://web.chemdoodle.com/installation.php#license """ As a special exception to the GPL, any HTML file which merely makes function calls to this code, and for that purpose includes it by reference, shall be deemed a separate work for copyright law purposes. If you modify this code, you may extend this exception to your version of the code, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. This means that your websites do NOT need to be released under GPL even if you call the ChemDoodle Web Components library. """ Now the questions: 1. Isn't that exception just redundant? I can't really see how an HTML could ever be considered a derivative work of some javascript code 2. in case it is really relevant, what should be put in the License filed of the spec file? TIA G. -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
