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

[Thorsten Glaser]

John Dallaway dixit:

>On the other hand, if the OSI board was to adopt a policy that all "GPL
>+ permissive exception" licenses which meet the "legacy approval"
>submission criteria should be approved, it seems that the subsequent
>effort involved in approving and listing such licenses would be small.

It makes sense to have a corpus of approved exceptions, if alone
for people to have “canonical” versions, and so that “someone”
looked at the working. (See the ISC licence for an example of
where bad wording (“without fee” vs. “with or without fee”, and
others) has come up repeatedly. We would also have a canonical
OpenSSL-and-derivatives-under-the-same-licence GPL exception
clause, and possibly others.

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
„Cool, /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples/uhr.gz ist ja ein Grund,
mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“
	-- XTaran auf der OpenRheinRuhr, ganz begeistert
(EN: “[…]uhr.gz is a reason to install mksh on every system.”)