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

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Feb 6 18:36:37 UTC 2013


On 02/06/2013 01:27 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 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.

Yes. But it doesn't change the analysis. :)

~tom

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