[Fedora-legal-list] QPL with exceptions

[Florian Weimer]

* Tom Callaway:

> On 01/05/2015 02:06 PM, Jerry James wrote:
>> The ocaml-menhir package has some code that is covered by QPL, but
>> with an exception.  The LICENSE file says:
>> 
>> As a special exception to the Q Public Licence, you may develop
>> application programs, reusable components and other software items
>> that link with the original or modified versions of the Generator
>> and are not made available to the general public, without any of the
>> additional requirements listed in clause 6c of the Q Public licence.
>> 
>> Should I describe this as QPL, or does this call for a "QPL with
>> exceptions" tag?  Rpmlint says the latter is (currently) invalid.
>> Thanks,
>
> That's an odd exception

Not really, after s/Generator/Compiler/ it's the exception used by the
Ocaml compiler itself, so ocaml-menhir should use the same license tag
as the ocaml package.

Maybe a separate tag is in order?