[Fedora-legal-list] What license should I use for javax.el-api

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Wed Feb 6 18:27:09 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:31:23AM -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:
> So, for Fedora,
> while "(CDDL or GPLv2) and ASL 2.0" is technically correct, it is
> impossible for Fedora to ever choose GPLv2, so the simpler license tag
> would be:
> 
> CDDL and ASL 2.0

I think (pedantically) the correct license tag should be:
(CDDL or GPLv2 with exceptions) and ASL 2.0
That is at least what other Glassfish derived packages use since it
isn't "pure" GPLv2 only.

Cheers,

Mark


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