SPDX migration: gmsh GPL exception

[Sandro Mani]

Hi

I'd like to migrate the gmsh package license field to spdx. The gmsh 
license is GPL with the exception as attached below. How should I 
migrate this to SPDX?

Thanks
Sandro

Gmsh is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(GPL), Version 2 or later, with the following exception:

The copyright holders of Gmsh give you permission to combine Gmsh
with code included in the standard release of Netgen (from Joachim
Sch"oberl), METIS (from George Karypis at the University of
Minnesota), OpenCASCADE (from Open CASCADE S.A.S) and ParaView
(from Kitware, Inc.) under their respective licenses. You may copy
and distribute such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL for
Gmsh and the licenses of the other code concerned, provided that
you include the source code of that other code when and as the GNU
GPL requires distribution of source code.

Note that people who make modified versions of Gmsh are not
obligated to grant this special exception for their modified
versions; it is their choice whether to do so. The GNU General
Public License gives permission to release a modified version
without this exception; this exception also makes it possible to
release a modified version which carries forward this exception.

End of exception.

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 12:47 PM Sandro Mani  wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'd like to migrate the gmsh package license field to spdx. The gmsh license is GPL with the exception as attached below. How should I migrate this to SPDX?
>
> Thanks
> Sandro
>
> Gmsh is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> (GPL), Version 2 or later, with the following exception:
>
> The copyright holders of Gmsh give you permission to combine Gmsh
>   with code included in the standard release of Netgen (from Joachim
>   Sch"oberl), METIS (from George Karypis at the University of
>   Minnesota), OpenCASCADE (from Open CASCADE S.A.S) and ParaView
>   (from Kitware, Inc.) under their respective licenses. You may copy
>   and distribute such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL for
>   Gmsh and the licenses of the other code concerned, provided that
>   you include the source code of that other code when and as the GNU
>   GPL requires distribution of source code.
>
> Note that people who make modified versions of Gmsh are not
>   obligated to grant this special exception for their modified
>   versions; it is their choice whether to do so. The GNU General
>   Public License gives permission to release a modified version
>   without this exception; this exception also makes it possible to
>   release a modified version which carries forward this exception.
>
> End of exception.

This exception will need to be registered with SPDX:
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues

This exception will need to be re-reviewed for inclusion to
fedora-license-data:
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues

[Jilayne Lovejoy]

Hi Sandro,

Please follow the process as defined here: 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-review-process/

As well as other (hopefully) helpful info on those pages.

If you have any other questions, Richard or I can help/respond in the 
Gitlab issue.

Thanks,
Jilayne

On 12/21/23 10:46 AM, Sandro Mani wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'd like to migrate the gmsh package license field to spdx. The gmsh 
> license is GPL with the exception as attached below. How should I 
> migrate this to SPDX?
>
> Thanks
> Sandro
>
> Gmsh is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> (GPL), Version 2 or later, with the following exception:
>
> The copyright holders of Gmsh give you permission to combine Gmsh
> with code included in the standard release of Netgen (from Joachim
> Sch"oberl), METIS (from George Karypis at the University of
> Minnesota), OpenCASCADE (from Open CASCADE S.A.S) and ParaView
> (from Kitware, Inc.) under their respective licenses. You may copy
> and distribute such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL for
> Gmsh and the licenses of the other code concerned, provided that
> you include the source code of that other code when and as the GNU
> GPL requires distribution of source code.
>
> Note that people who make modified versions of Gmsh are not
> obligated to grant this special exception for their modified
> versions; it is their choice whether to do so. The GNU General
> Public License gives permission to release a modified version
> without this exception; this exception also makes it possible to
> release a modified version which carries forward this exception.
>
> End of exception.
>
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