On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 01:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > 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? > 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 real world example where the FSF itself applies such a "GPL w/ exceptions" is the license of libstdc++. > The GPL exception on this pigment review > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233597 seem ok to me. ACK. Ralf -- 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
