Bug#496659: [bug-OpenOffice-OODoc@rt.cpan.org: [rt.cpan.org #38979] Genicorp General Public License]
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Subject: [rt.cpan.org #38979] Genicorp General Public License
From: Jean-Marie Gouarne via RT <bug-OpenOffice-OODoc@rt.cpan.org>
To: mxey@cloudconnected.org
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:00:15 -0400
<URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=38979 >
Le Jeu. Sep. 04 07:52:06 2008, mxey@cloudconnected.org a écrit :
> [...]
> This licence is known to be fine for main, but contains the key phrase
> "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients'
> exercise of the rights granted herein" in section 10. So, I think
> that if the other licence contains any restrictions to copying not
> already in LGPL-2.1 then we can't satisfy both licences at the same
> time and so have no permission to copy it.
> [...]
> > II - The software can be freely copied and passed to third
parties
> > on condition that they accept the terms of this user
licence which
> > should always accompany the software unchanged.
>
> So it requires acceptance of Genicorp GPL, which is a restriction not
> present in LGPL-2.1 as far as I saw, so we can't satisfy both
> licences, so we have no permission.
Hmmm... But, as long as nothing in the Genicorp GPL restricts any right
granted in LGPL-2.1, acceptance of Genicorp GPL should not be regarded
as a "restriction".
A recipient who accepts both the LGPL and an LGPL-compatible licence
doesn't lose any right granted by the LGPL, isn't it ?
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