Re: Proposal for a generic new exception for OpenSSL
Alexios Zavras
If the wording of openvpn-openssl-exception is acceptable, we could "templatize" its text and replace "OpenVPN" with "<SoftwareProduct>" and "OpenVPN Technologies, Inc." with "<CopyrightHolder>".
For example of a simple templatized license, see the NTP license: https://spdx.org/licenses/NTP.html
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From: Spdx-legal@... <Spdx-legal@...> On Behalf Of James Bottomley
Sent: Friday, 10 August, 2018 18:14
To: Matija ?uklje <matija@...>; spdx-legal@...
Subject: Re: Proposal for a generic new exception for OpenSSL
On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 16:08 +0200, Matija ?uklje wrote:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/efitools.git/tree/COPYING
This is what GNU did for wget. They really didn't want it in their licence, so the COPYING file is an unmodified GPL-3.0+ licence and the exception is placed into every file, e.g:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/tree/src/http.c
Stunnel has this:
https://www.stunnel.org/sdf_copying.html
Dejacode (a sort of SPDX look alike) has one from Tideslash:
https://enterprise.dejacode.com/licenses/public/openssl-exception-gpl-3.0-plus/
One of the Linux Distros actually collected a couple of standard forms (but they look very similar to the wget ones):
https://www.calculate-linux.org/packages/licenses/GPL-2+-with-openssl-exception
https://www.calculate-linux.org/packages/licenses/GPL-3-with-openssl-exception
Trolltech has an elaborate exception clause for Qt:
https://doc.qt.io/archives/4.3/license-gpl-exceptions.html
And, of course, SPDX codifies the openvpn one:
https://spdx.org/licenses/openvpn-openssl-exception.html
These are just the handful I turned up the last time I had to write an OpenSSL exception.
James
Intel Deutschland GmbH
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From: Spdx-legal@... <Spdx-legal@...> On Behalf Of James Bottomley
Sent: Friday, 10 August, 2018 18:14
To: Matija ?uklje <matija@...>; spdx-legal@...
Subject: Re: Proposal for a generic new exception for OpenSSL
On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 16:08 +0200, Matija ?uklje wrote:
Dne četrtek, 09. avgust 2018 ob 02:46:21 CEST je James BottomleyThanks for thinking about it. I was hoping the problem of finding a generic way of putting it would appeal to someone.
napisal(a):Most of the alternative formulations go for wordier versions, but II have pondered on this for longer than I thought I would, but don’t
think brevity is better.
have a proposal I would be happy with yet.
Would you mind sharing which others versions you found? Can also beSure, this is the last one I did for the secure boot tools:
off- list, if preferred.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/efitools.git/tree/COPYING
This is what GNU did for wget. They really didn't want it in their licence, so the COPYING file is an unmodified GPL-3.0+ licence and the exception is placed into every file, e.g:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/tree/src/http.c
Stunnel has this:
https://www.stunnel.org/sdf_copying.html
Dejacode (a sort of SPDX look alike) has one from Tideslash:
https://enterprise.dejacode.com/licenses/public/openssl-exception-gpl-3.0-plus/
One of the Linux Distros actually collected a couple of standard forms (but they look very similar to the wget ones):
https://www.calculate-linux.org/packages/licenses/GPL-2+-with-openssl-exception
https://www.calculate-linux.org/packages/licenses/GPL-3-with-openssl-exception
Trolltech has an elaborate exception clause for Qt:
https://doc.qt.io/archives/4.3/license-gpl-exceptions.html
And, of course, SPDX codifies the openvpn one:
https://spdx.org/licenses/openvpn-openssl-exception.html
These are just the handful I turned up the last time I had to write an OpenSSL exception.
James
Intel Deutschland GmbH
Registered Address: Am Campeon 10-12, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany
Tel: +49 89 99 8853-0, www.intel.de
Managing Directors: Christin Eisenschmid, Christian Lamprechter
Chairperson of the Supervisory Board: Nicole Lau
Registered Office: Munich
Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 186928