Question on how to handled "GPL with exceptions" in a package review.

[Christopher Blizzard]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 16:41 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 4/16/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Probably the former. Please post the license text, or throw the bugzilla
> > number at me.
> 
> pigment ticket: 233597
> elisa ticket: 233598
> 
> both have the same additional clause.  The text of the additional clause is:
> 
> Fluendo hereby grants permission for anyone under a valid license distributing
> Fluendo's non-GPL compatible GStreamer plugins to distribute and use them
> together with GStreamer and Elisa. This permission is above and beyond the
> permissions granted by the GPL license by which Elisa is covered. If you
> modify this code, you may extend this permission to your version of the code,
> but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
> exception statement from your version.
> 
> 
> Like I said this looks fine to me, but I hadn't run across an
> exceptions situation yet in a review.

Yeah, it's an extension.  It's very similar to the verbage that we used
in the Fedora Directory Server.

What surprises me is that the grant only applies to Fluendo's plugins
and not anyone to plugins that are created by anyone else.

--Chris