From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HmrDe-0005se-W4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:01:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4CCxh0L015085; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:59:43 GMT Received: from gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.116]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4CCvSGO012112 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:57:28 GMT Received: from [192.168.150.87] (a91-152-108-214.elisa-laajakaista.fi [91.152.108.214]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1BA1395AC for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 15:57:27 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <4645B9AC.4070100@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 15:57:16 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070409) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required? References: <200705121242.03449.cryos@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200705121242.03449.cryos@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig00BD312CA7C82C8641CE6F43" X-Archives-Salt: 022414f1-fec9-463d-871c-1bbeda531019 X-Archives-Hash: 176afb37cbec5e2710a0a6951ee00150 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig00BD312CA7C82C8641CE6F43 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marcus D. Hanwell kirjoitti: > There is a template library called Eigen I would like to add to the tre= e. It=20 > is a dependency of an application I would like to add shortly. It will = also=20 > end up being a dependency of KDE 4 (for kalzium). My question relates t= o the=20 > licence the code is released under. >=20 > It is licenced under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later with the following= =20 > exception, >=20 > // As a special exception, if other files instantiate templates or use = macros > // or inline functions from this file, or you compile this file and lin= k it > // with other works to produce a work based on this file, this file doe= s not > // by itself cause the resulting work to be covered by the GNU General = Public > // License. This exception does not invalidate any other reasons why a = work > // based on this file might be covered by the GNU General Public Licens= e. >=20 > Please see http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/ for more details. My question is= =20 > whether this requires a new licence to be added to the tree, listing it= under=20 > GPL-2 and then installing a copy of the modified licence or something I= have=20 > not thought of? >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Marcus dev-java/gnu-classpath has a similar exception and we have it in as GPL-2-with-linking-exception so whatever we end up with it should be done the same way for all ebuilds. As by default the licenses are anded I guess we should go with "GPL-2 exception" as Carsten suggested. Regards, Petteri --------------enig00BD312CA7C82C8641CE6F43 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGRbmvcxLzpIGCsLQRAqAaAJ9MJ2srHuC4DS/cgRcjTefysfT6AwCglJEv zvzlMHz7Y6D9K7HrQ2iU0TU= =qWHw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig00BD312CA7C82C8641CE6F43-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list