Jumping the licensing shark
Jumping the licensing shark
Posted Mar 23, 2023 7:34 UTC (Thu) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)In reply to: Jumping the licensing shark by Cyberax
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That is basically the "GPL with additional permissions" that is used by Autotools, Bison, libgcc and others, isn't it?
Posted Mar 23, 2023 22:39 UTC (Thu)
by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
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Jumping the licensing shark
Right, adding additional permissions to copyleft licenses is fine, and as far as I know can never add incompatibilities (although it would be nice to have a lawyer confirm). In the case of OCaml LGPL + linking exception (which is this kind of "additional permission" license) it has never been raised as an issue in all the 20-ish years we've been using it. We just treat it like LGPL.