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

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Wed Feb 6 18:41:36 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 01:36:37PM -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:
> 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. :)

By my standards of pedanticism it should just be CDDL.

- RF



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