Re: [Notion-devel] Licensing questions (was: Re: Is any of the notion@sf.net admins around?)

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:27:08PM +0200, M Rawash wrote:
> i hope you can explain away this answer too:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NoMilitary

Sure: this FAQ item deals with adding additional restrictions, while at the 
same time (!) claiming you're releasing the software under the GPL.

We are not trying to have the ion code licensed under the LGPL and at the 
same time impose additional restrictions. We are trying to have the ion code 
under the 'LGPL-extended', without claiming it is still LGPL code.

> > I'm not so sure we wouldn't be violating contributors' rights by relicensing
> > their LGPL'ed code under the 'extended' version.
> 
> we're not really 'relicensing' anything, all copyright notices and
> individual license files will remain intact (as per Section 1 of the
> LGPL). The 'whole' (in this particular case) will be considered a "work
> that uses the Library" (as per Section 5 of the LGPL), thus only subject
> to Section 6 of the LGPL where applicable.
> 
> > Though it *might* be legal, 
> > in any case it seems like good form to explicitly ask them if they're OK with
> > it.
> 
> +1

Let's do it this way 
 
> > > We should definitely have this talk now, rather than later, i hope more
> > > people can get in on this.
> > 
> > It seems most of our problems are 'practical' questions (about what we can/must
> > legally do) rather than 'fundamental' questions. Perhaps we should just ask the
> > GNU legal team to clarify things? I'd be willing to prepare a mail explaining 
> > the situation. If I remember correctly they have a mailing list for this kind 
> > of thing.
> 
> that would be great, thank you.

OK, willdo.


Kind regards,

Arnout