[Fedora-legal-list] aria2 license

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Mon Jul 27 19:06:39 UTC 2009


>>>>> "RS" == Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> writes:

RS> Hi, http://aria2.sf.net was marked as GPLv2 so far. I recently
RS> took over the package and noticed that the license is actually
RS> GPLv2+ with an exception for OpenSSL. That doesn't seem to be
RS> specifically covered under the licensing page.

Adding exceptions to GPLv2+ gets you "GPLv2+ with exceptions".  It
doesn't really matter what the exceptions are, as long as they aren't
actually incompatible with the GPL.

 - J<




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