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

[Simo Sorce]

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.

So pigment and elisa don't use _any_ other GPLed code that is not owned
by themselves (libraries?) ?

Simo.