Jeff Spaleta wrote:
Good Morning campers, I've been working on the review of pigment and I had a question concerning whether I need to ask for a legal review of the license. Its GPL with an additional exception clause. Now personally, I've no problem with the additional clause but I aint no lawyer'n type monkey so take my opinion with a grain of salt. This is the first time I've come across a GPL with additional exceptions license as a reviewer so I want to tread carefully. Do additional exceptions tacked on to the GPL require a legal review or is this a best judgement situation?
The rule of thumb when dealing with GPL exceptions is to ask yourself this question: Does it add restrictions or does it relax it?
Allowing more than what the GPL license would otherwise do is ok. For example, a exception to allow a GPL'ed library to link to OpenSSL. A exception that adds restrictions on top is not ok. For example, you may
not use this application in a commercial way. The GPL exception on this pigment review https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233597 seem ok to me. Rahul -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
