<div dir="ltr"><div>Adriaan:</div><div><br></div><div>I think the right course is to use "LGPL-2.0-or-later-with-kde-exception" and then ask SPDX directly to create "kde-exception". You can see the current SPDX exceptions at <<a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html">https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html</a>>, and the process document is <<a href="https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md</a>>.</div><div><br></div><div> By the way, is it LGPL 2.0 or 2.1?</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 9:05 AM Pamela Chestek <<a href="mailto:pamela.chestek@opensource.org">pamela.chestek@opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Adriaan,<br>
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As suggested by Lukas, this is not a new license but a statement
about various licenses that may be used. Because it is not a license
per se, it is out of scope or the license review process. We will
therefore not be reviewing it.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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<div>Pamela Chestek<br>
Chair, License Review Committee<br>
Open Source Initiative</div>
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On 12/4/2019 1:49 PM, Adriaan de Groot wrote:<br>
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<pre>The KDE community is a Free Software and Open Source community that has been
around for almost 25 years [1]. We have had a licence policy [2] for quite
some time that says "LGPL version 2.1 or LGPL version 3 or a later LGPL
version as approved by KDE e.V.". Well, the text isn't **exactly** that,
and it gets written down in source files in various ways. Here is an
example:
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<pre>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) version 3, or any
later version accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its
successor approved by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall
act as a proxy defined in Section 6 of version 3 of the license.
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<pre>The boilerplate text provided by our policy is on our wiki [3].
For the purpose of obtaining an SPDX identifier, we are requesting a license
review of this particular construction: LGPL 2-or-3-or-later with a
specific third-party named to bless those later versions. That is why I'm
not going to put in the complete text of the LGPL 2.1 and LGPL 3.
[ade] (KDE e.V. board of directors)
[1] <a href="https://kde.org/" target="_blank">https://kde.org/</a>
[2] <a href="https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy</a>
[3] <a href="https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#LGPL_Header" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#LGPL_Header</a></pre>
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