[Fedora-legal-list] How to note 'GPLv3 with options taken'?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 07:45 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 11:56 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > The GPLv3 allows certain options to be taken, so that it becomes
> > compatible with a number of other licences, such as BSD varients.
> > 
> > Samba4 includes a number of pieces of such code in the form of Heimdal
> > (a Kerberos implementation we currently have bundled), do I have to do
> > make some special note (other than complying with the restrictions, by
> > including copyright notices in the docs)?
> 
> IANAL, and this should not be construed as legal advice. That disclaimer
> out of the way, here's my opinion.
> 
> As far as the code is concerned, you should note that there are
> exceptions in the header attribution, something like:
> 
>     This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>     the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
>     (at your option) any later version. As permitted by Section 10, the additional
>     exception permissions have been granted:

I perhaps should have been more clear.  A number of the licences impose
particular (but resaonable, so GPLv3 compatible) restrictions requiring
their particular notice be reproduced in various places.  Complying with
them is easy - I'll be including an aggregated list of these licences in
a text file marked as %doc. 

> >From a Fedora perspective, any package that add exceptions to the GPLv3 should be 
> noted in its license tag with:
> 
> License: GPLv3 with exceptions
> 
> or
> 
> License: GPLv3+ with exceptions
> 
> ... depending on whether the license attribution states v3 only or v3 or later.

I'm presuming for these cases it would be GPLv3+ with permitted
restrictions? 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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