On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 12:47 PM Sandro Mani <manisandro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > I'd like to migrate the gmsh package license field to spdx. The gmsh license is GPL with the exception as attached below. How should I migrate this to SPDX? > > Thanks > Sandro > > > Gmsh is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License > (GPL), Version 2 or later, with the following exception: > > The copyright holders of Gmsh give you permission to combine Gmsh > with code included in the standard release of Netgen (from Joachim > Sch"oberl), METIS (from George Karypis at the University of > Minnesota), OpenCASCADE (from Open CASCADE S.A.S) and ParaView > (from Kitware, Inc.) under their respective licenses. You may copy > and distribute such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL for > Gmsh and the licenses of the other code concerned, provided that > you include the source code of that other code when and as the GNU > GPL requires distribution of source code. > > Note that people who make modified versions of Gmsh are not > obligated to grant this special exception for their modified > versions; it is their choice whether to do so. The GNU General > Public License gives permission to release a modified version > without this exception; this exception also makes it possible to > release a modified version which carries forward this exception. > > End of exception. > This exception will need to be registered with SPDX: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues This exception will need to be re-reviewed for inclusion to fedora-license-data: https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
