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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required?
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:16:59
Message-Id: 200705121513.53760.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required? by "Harald van Dijk"
1 On Samstag, 12. Mai 2007, Harald van Dijk wrote:
2 > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:27:20PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
3 > > No. LICENSE="GPL-2 some-exception" suffices.
4 >
5 > No, that means something completely different. It means that you should
6 > install the software only if you find both the GPL-2 and the exception
7 > acceptable, rather than if you find the combination of the GPL-2 with
8 > the exception acceptable.
9
10 And that's why it's not different. Such exceptions usually don't stand for
11 themselves, but relate to the license they're bound to. Can be matter of the
12 wording, though.
13
14 I consider it quite stupid adding extra licenses for such exceptions.
15
16
17 Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required? "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@g.o>