[Fedora-legal-list] Approval of license exception for new Fedora packages: raft/dqlite
Hi everyone
I'm in the course of adding two new packages raft [1] (sources: [2])
and dqlite [3] (sources: [4]) to Fedora.
According to the LICENSE files [5][6] I would choose the Fedora license
short name "LGPLv3 with exception" for these packages. The exception
goes as following:
"As a special exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License
version 3 ("LGPL3"), the copyright holders of this Library give you
permission to convey to a third party a Combined Work that links
statically or dynamically to this Library without providing any Minimal
Corresponding Source or Minimal Application Code as set out in 4d or
providing the installation information set out in section 4e, provided
that you comply with the other provisions of LGPL3 and provided that
you meet, for the Application the terms and conditions of the
license(s) which apply to the Application.
Except as stated in this special exception, the provisions of LGPL3
will continue to comply in full to this Library. If you modify this
Library, you may apply this exception to your version of this Library,
but you are not obliged to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete
this exception statement from your version. This exception does not
(and cannot) modify any license terms which apply to the Application,
with which you must still comply."
According to the rules that I found in the documentation [7] I'm asking
you for approval of this exception.
Kind regards and cheers,
Reto
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2017459
[2]: https://github.com/canonical/raft
[3]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2017476
[4]: https://github.com/canonical/dqlite
[5]: https://github.com/canonical/raft/blob/v0.11.2/LICENSE
[6]: https://github.com/canonical/dqlite/blob/v1.9.0/LICENSE
[7]:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Software_Licen...