[Bug 474044] Review Request: libzdb - A small, fast, and easy to use database API

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Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>  2009-02-10 17:48:56 EDT ---
Some comments:

* The original version of this "EXCEPTIONS" had a third clause:

3.  Companies listed in this table are not granted rights to 
    modify, distribute, copy or use the Program. Not under the 
    GPL nor under any other Open Source license. This 
    restriction includes employes, both past and present and 
    anyone affiliated with the following Companies. 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| Company                             | Identified by          | 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| The SCO Group                       | Domain Name: SCO.COM   |
| MySQL AB                            | Domain Name: MYSQL.COM |
| Red Hat                             | Domain Name: REDHAT.COM|
| Apple Computer                      | Domain Name: APPLE.COM |
| Sun Microsystems                    | Domain Name: SUN.COM   |
| International Business Machines     | Domain Name: IBM.COM   |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

 a) The restriction in section 3 and section 3 does not apply 
    if the Program is part of Work by others not affected by 
    section 3 and the Work is distributed under the GPL or under
    one of the licenses listed in section 2 above

*****
Thankfully, that clause is no longer present. However, the EXCEPTIONS seem to
not give linking permission to modified versions of their code.

Accordingly, we should treat this code as GPLv3+ only, and ignore the
EXCEPTIONS.

Lifting FE-Legal.

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