Re: [Fedora-legal-list] java-gnome: GPLv2 with a classpath exception like statement

[Joerg Schilling]

Alexander Boström  wrote:
> I'm hoping it can be added to the acceptable licenses list. Presumably
> after that happens I can put "License: GPLv2 with exceptions" in the
> corresponding spec file.
>
> Is it wrong to fall back to "License: GPLv2" in the meantime? I'd like
> to have the exception though to hopefully make it GPLv3 compatible.

This may be impossible, note that GPLv3 allows a downstream to remove 
permissive exceptions.

Jörg