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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required?
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 15:13:25 +0200
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On Samstag, 12. Mai 2007, Harald van D=C4=B3k wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:27:20PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> > No. LICENSE=3D"GPL-2 some-exception" suffices.
>
> No, that means something completely different. It means that you should
> install the software only if you find both the GPL-2 and the exception
> acceptable, rather than if you find the combination of the GPL-2 with
> the exception acceptable.

And that's why it's not different. Such exceptions usually don't stand for=
=20
themselves, but relate to the license they're bound to. Can be matter of th=
e=20
wording, though.=20

I consider it quite stupid adding extra licenses for such exceptions.


Carsten

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