[Fedora-legal-list] java-gnome: GPLv2 with a classpath exception like statement

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Dec 31 15:04:17 UTC 2009


On 12/31/2009 08:17 AM, Alexander Boström wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to ask someone to have a look at the license for java-gnome,
> the GNOME Java bindings:
> 
> http://research.operationaldynamics.com/bzr/java-gnome/mainline/LICENCE
> 
> I'm hoping it can be added to the acceptable licenses list. Presumably
> after that happens I can put "License: GPLv2 with exceptions" in the
> corresponding spec file.

This is the "Classpath" exception, which is fine for Fedora. Go ahead
and use:

License: GPLv2 with exceptions

(I've added entries for the Classpath exception to the GPL section of
the Licensing list to make this clear.)

~spot




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