[License-review] GPL exceptions, eCos, and wxwindows [was re eCos]

[Richard Fontana]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 09:39:04PM -0700, Luis Villa wrote:
> tl;dr: I am open to considering this, but after thinking about it some I'd
> favor a simple statement along the lines that "granting additional
> permissions to approved licenses is always OK" and, giving eCos and
> WxWindows as useful examples.
[...]
> We could simply make a clear statement that any additional *optional
> permission* added to an existing/approved license is, itself, open source.
> This has always been our defacto policy, I think; would make a clear/useful
> statement more broadly; and would prevent us from having to deal with an
> ongoing series of requests about the many old, standard exceptions that are
> hanging out there.

Belated +1 to this.

- Richard