Re: ASL 2.0 with exceptions

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On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:15 PM Bryan Sutula <bsutula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> (replied earlier but it was moderated...sorry if a duplicate arrives)
>
> On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 14:12 +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> > I'm trying to package lprint https://github.com/michaelrsweet/lprint
> > which has Apache Software License 2.0 with exceptions for GPLv2 and
> > LGPLv2.
>
> [...]
>
> > Unfortunately, there isn't a valid short name for 'ASL 2.0 with
> > exceptions' at [2] - would it be possible to add the short name into
> > the table or should I just use simple 'ASL 2.0'?
>
> The question of what to name this exception aside, the lprint NOTICE
> text is only a portion of the LLVM-exception text[3].  The lprint text
> is awkward in that the first word of the exception is "Additionally"
> but there's no prior exception text in the lprint NOTICE file for the
> "Additionally" to refer to.  I wonder whether the author might be
> willing to avoid creating yet another custom exception type, by
> including the entire LLVM-exception text in the lprint NOTICE file.

Ah, I completely missed that. I suppose it shows that the LLVM
exception is not really suitable as a general-purpose (not
compiler-specific) exception.

Richard
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