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Re: GPL + exceptions issue

Tom Incorvia
 

Hi DMG,

I was off traveling a bit, so if I may have missed some interim conversations -- hopefully I am addressing the same topic that you are. I don't see how the conjunction of 2 licenses will work with our model -- we track "a license". I thought that we had previously agreed that the licenses would be distinct (resulting in, say, "GPL 2.0 with Classpath Exception" as a single license). I am in the commercial world, and we need to treat the License + exception as a distinct "agreement".

Thanks,

Tom

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-----Original Message-----
From: spdx-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-bounces@...] On Behalf Of dmg
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 12:25 PM
To: Jilayne Lovejoy
Cc: spdx@...
Subject: Re: GPL + exceptions issue

The list will grow n^2 to the number of GPL licenses. Why not consider
the exception as a conjunction of two licenses for the purpose of the
spec? One the GPL, and the other the exception. This will also help to
simplify new exceptions as they appear.

--dmg

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Jilayne Lovejoy <Jlovejoy@...> wrote:
So, for purposes of the license list - am I to add a new line item for
each GPL + exception?

If so, does anyone want to help me generate a list of the various
commonly used exceptions with some attention to how they are named?  The
exceptions tend to be associated with a specific project, but the text
of the exception has to do with what is being excepted from the GPL
copyleft  license requirement.  For the purposes of matching the correct
exception to what's found in an actual file - both pieces of information
(name and substance of exception) can be useful... Does anyone have any
thought on how to handle this in terms of the actual list?

-----Original Message-----
From: spdx-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-bounces@...]
On Behalf Of Peter Williams
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:25 AM
To: spdx@...
Subject: Re: License List v1.2 wiki page created

On 11/5/10 5:08 AM, Tom Incorvia wrote:
We formerly decided to treat each combination of license + exception
as a separate license since the exception can change the terms
materially.  For instance GPL + Classpath is more permissive than LGPL.
From a practical point of view, the exception creates a different
license.  Tom

Thanks for pointing that out.  That agreement must have been reached
before i joined the group.  I agree that approach makes the most sense.

We could make the relationship explicit by defining a dc:hasPart
property on the license+exception with the value of the original
license.  This would allow tools to more easily show how various license

are related to one another.

Peter Williams
www.openlogic.com

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