Hi Eric,
now, I get an idea.
But, are these libraries, we refer to (jibx, etc.) "system libraries" in
the sense of the link you gave?
They are not normally part of the operating system, are they? IMHO, this
exception is e.g. for
GPL und W**dos, but not for our situation.
Another idea I had: can't we put FreeMind under GPLv3, which is
compatible to the Apache2.0 and
we have much less problems. From the original license, we are allowed to
use any successor of GPLv2.
What do you think?
Chris
Eric Lavarde - FreeMind schrieb:
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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