[Fedora-legal-list] GPL and additional restrictions

[Tom Callaway]

On 06/02/2011 11:11 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> What is more galling to me in that case is that the license falsely
> refers to 1(b) as an exception, as if to make it seem more benign than
> it is.  An exception is by definition an additional permission that
> distributors are allowed to remove (e.g., in order to combine the work
> with a plain-GPL work).

Yes, that license is terrible. Unfortunately, fixing it is non-trivial
for a variety of reasons that I cannot go into. :/

~tom

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