Re: revised wording for top of exceptions page (was: Linux syscall exception agreed documentation)

2017-09-28 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
J Lovejoy wrote: > The SPDX License List includes a list of exceptions. These exceptions > grant an exception to a license condition or additional permissions beyond > those granted in a license; they are not stand-alone licenses. Exceptions > are added to a license using the License Expression

Re: revised wording for top of exceptions page (was: Linux syscall exception agreed documentation)

2017-09-27 Thread J Lovejoy
Thanks for the reminder, Bradley. and yes, the final version is in the email that Trevor referenced which was: The SPDX License List includes a list of exceptions. These exceptions grant an exception to a license condition or additional permissions beyond those granted in a license; they are

RE: revised wording for top of exceptions page

2017-07-12 Thread Zavras, Alexios
: Richard Fontana Cc: SPDX-legal Subject: Re: revised wording for top of exceptions page On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Richard Fontana mailto:rfont...@redhat.com>> wrote: There was one notorious case of the use of GPLv2 with a permissive and restrictive additional term that was described

RE: revised wording for top of exceptions page

2017-07-11 Thread Wheeler, David A
egal-boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of Richard Fontana Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 3:32 PM To: W. Trevor King Cc: SPDX-legal Subject: Re: revised wording for top of exceptions page There was one notorious case of the use of GPLv2 with a permissive and restrictive additional term that was descr

Re: revised wording for top of exceptions page

2017-07-10 Thread Michael Dolan
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > There was one notorious case of the use of GPLv2 with a permissive and > restrictive additional term that was described at the time as an > "exception" -- Red Hat's license for Liberation Fonts 1.0. See: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib

Re: revised wording for top of exceptions page

2017-07-10 Thread Richard Fontana
things called "exceptions" that are not "additional permissions". Richard - Original Message - From: "W. Trevor King" To: "Phil Odence" Cc: "SPDX-legal" Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 2:03:15 PM Subject: Re: revised wording for top of

Re: revised wording for top of exceptions page

2017-07-10 Thread W. Trevor King
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 12:23:43PM +, Phil Odence wrote: > The SPDX License List includes a list of Exceptions. These > Exceptions are commonly-granted permissions beyond those normally > granted in a license. (They are not stand-alone licenses.) > Exceptions are added to a license using the Li

Re: revised wording for top of exceptions page

2017-07-07 Thread Phil Odence
Looks great. I was not able to make the call, but nonetheless took a shot at concise-isizing: The SPDX License List includes a list of Exceptions. These Exceptions are commonly-granted permissions beyond those normally granted in a license. (They are not stand-alone licenses.) Exceptions are add