| Summary: | net-libs/polarssl: LICENSE misses the 'FOSS License Exception' part | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Michał Górny <mgorny> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Thomas Sachau <tommy> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | hasufell, licenses, ryao |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 618354 | ||
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Description
Michał Górny
2014-03-07 21:58:36 UTC
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0) > LICENSE="GPL-2" License notices in source files say "version 2 or later", so this should be "GPL-2+". > which suggests that it's impossible to use the library in non-GPL code. A library licensed under the GPL can be linked with any program under a GPL-compatible license. (See the @GPL-COMPATIBLE license group for a list.) On your own system, you can also link it with anything that is incompatible with the GPL, but you cannot distribute the resulting binary. > However, upstream has a FOSS License Exception [1] which allows linking a > few other FOSS licenses [2]. > > [1]:https://polarssl.org/foss-license-exception > [2]:https://polarssl.org/kb/licensing/using-polarssl-in-a-non-gpl-project Hm, most of the licenses they list in [1] are GPL-compatible anyway. AFAICS, the only ones where their exception has an effect (i.e. that are incompatible with the GPL) are Apache-1* and EUPL-1.0. > (CC-ing licenses@ with hope they could suggest an elegant way of handling > this) We have a few other licenses of the GPL-2-with*exception* type already, and we have gcc-runtime-library-exception-3.1, too. @Licenses team: Do we prefer the former (i.e. exception and GPL together in one file), or the latter (exception in a file of its own)? Disclaimer: IANAL, TINLA. anything to do here? Otherwise I will close this bug. The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b01ba5b1c17186f40b54490d8f901211167da49a commit b01ba5b1c17186f40b54490d8f901211167da49a Author: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-01-15 04:13:05 +0000 Commit: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-01-15 04:13:05 +0000 net-libs/polarssl: Removal Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/6124 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/503782 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/537108 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/618354 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/503604 net-libs/polarssl/Manifest | 1 - .../files/polarssl-1.3.9-respect-cflags.patch | 15 ---- net-libs/polarssl/metadata.xml | 18 ---- net-libs/polarssl/polarssl-1.3.9-r1.ebuild | 95 ---------------------- net-libs/polarssl/polarssl-1.3.9.ebuild | 92 --------------------- profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask | 4 - profiles/package.mask | 6 -- 7 files changed, 231 deletions(-) |