On 26/04/2023 11:49, Arne Schwabe wrote:
After first round of mailing people with more than 10 commits we have almost all committers have agreed. This put this license in the realm of having a realistic change to work. Had any of these contributers disagreed, rewriting all their code might have been not feasible.The rationale of adding this exception now is to avoid having to have a second round of agreement for new contributers and ensure that all new code will include the exemption. patch v2: add explaination and use exception rather than excemption patch v3: actually send v3 Change-Id: Ide83f914f383b53ef37ddf628e4da5a78e241bf0 Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <a...@rfc2549.org>
LGTM and is (almost) the same text as the proposal [1] sent February 15, 2023. A little extra character has been added, which can be removed at commit time. See comment below in the diff.
[1] Message-Id: <9160f6a3-1a61-d112-7a48-a7da4af38...@eurephia.org> <https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg26269.html> Acked-By: David Sommerseth <dav...@openvpn.net>
--- COPYING | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index e12c51414..a6f8a6f5f 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -31,6 +31,53 @@ OpenVPN license: file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.+Apache2 linking exception:+--------------------------- +OpenVPN is currently undergoing a license change to add an exception for +Apache 2 linking. The following exception is only valid for new contributions +after COMMITDATE and past contribution where the authors have already agreed +to the exception. + + In addition, as a special exception, OpenVPN Inc and the + contributors give permission to link the code of this program to + libraries (the "Libraries") licensed under the Apache License + version 2.0 (this work and any linked library the "Combined Work") + and copy and distribute the Combined Work without an obligation to + license the Libraries under the GNU General Public License v2 + (GPL-2.0) as required by Section 2 of the GPL-2.0, and without an + obligation to refrain from imposing any additional restrictions in + the Apache License version 2 that are not in the GPL-2.0, as + required by Section 6 of the GPL-2.0. You must comply with the`
The line above ends with an additional ` -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc
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