Hi Chris,
I thought that I was practical enough, but here more in details:
1. ask authorization from all copyright owners to do the following.
2. add one sentence along the lines of "The copyright holders of
FreeMind grant a special exception in regard to the usage of non-GPL
compatible but free libraries, as detailed in the license/copyright file."
3. in the license file, add accordingly a blurb adapted from the below
link (the last template in the answer):
> Linking [name of your program] statically or dynamically with other
> modules is making a combined work based on [name of your program].
> Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover
> the whole combination.
>
> In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders of [name of
> your program] give you permission to combine [name of your program]
> with free software programs or libraries that are released under the
> GNU LGPL and with code included in the standard release of [name of
> library] under the [name of library's license] (or modified versions
> of such code, with unchanged license). You may copy and distribute
> such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL for [name of your
> program] and the licenses of the other code concerned{, provided that
> you include the source code of that other code when and as the GNU GPL
> requires distribution of source code}.
>
> Note that people who make modified versions of [name of your program]
> are not obligated to grant this special exception for their modified
> versions; it is their choice whether to do so. The GNU General Public
> License gives permission to release a modified version without this
> exception; this exception also makes it possible to release a modified
> version which carries forward this exception.
>
Eric
Christian Foltin (GMX) wrote:
>> 2. usage of GPL-incompatible libraries: believing this FSF note
>> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs>
>> (/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs/),
>> we can make sure that FreeMind can use GPL-incompatible libraries but
>> we need to make it explicit in our copyright. I (Eric L.
>> <http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=User:Ewl&action=edit>
>> 05:56, 24 Mar 2008 (PDT))suggest to ask the current and former
>> copyright holder and add a note in each source file that there is an
>> exception on GPL-incompatible libraries, and explicit this exception
>> in the "license" file.
> What does this mean pratically for us?
>
> Chris
>
>
> Eric Lavarde - FreeMind schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> again me and licenses: I've done some more searching and documented my
>> conclusions on our wiki under
>> http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Licensing#Licensing_of_components
>>
>> Some more decisions and actions to be taken.
>>
>> Let me know,
>> Eric
>>
>>
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