Bug 394663

Summary:	Please add qwt license to profiles/license_groups
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrius Štikonas <andrius>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Licenses team <licenses>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/licenses/qwt?view=markup
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrius Štikonas 2011-12-14 10:32:19 UTC

Please add qwt license to profiles/license_groups.
It seems to be a free software license (LGPL with additional exceptions) and can probably be added to GPL-COMPATIBLE licenses.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2011-12-14 16:01:41 UTC

@Licenses team: This is not explicitly approved by the FSF. However, if we treat it in the same way as the other "(L)GPL with exceptions" licenses then indeed it should go to GPL_COMPATIBLE.

Opinions?

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2011-12-16 17:50:19 UTC

Added to GPL-COMPATIBLE.

I've also added a comment that GPL and LGPL with exceptions should go to this group (even if not explicitly approved by the FSF), because they are more permissive than the licenses they are based on.