Re: [Notion-devel] Using an LGPL license extended with additional terms

[M R. <mr...@gm...>]

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 19:45 +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As you can see I mailed the FSF about our licensing questions. The mail was 
> shorter than I expected, but I think I covered the important points - if not
> we can always send an additional question in another mail.
> 
> The GNU site, however, does mention the FSF has quite a backlog of questions 
> to be answered, so this could take a while. I tried soliciting feedback on the
> #gnu and #fsf channels, and got little response - but nothing negative either.
> 
> As a further sign we should be in the clear, I noticed the wxWidgets license,
> which is also an LGPL extended with some extra terms, was actually approved by
> OSI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows.php 

fair enough, although this example is actually more permissive than the
original LGPL, a modification is a modification, and this definitely
counts as one.

> I'd propose we now move forward and commit Notion to Git. If we later get 
> notified there's something amiss license-wise, we can always backtrack and fix
> it. After all, we're already in trouble now, as we're distributing notion with 
> a *modified* ion license (with the ion/notion substitution applied), which is 
> wrong in any case. 

yah, that was meant to be a temporary thing, we should probably take it
off the sf site.

> (I'd be happy to push it - i *think* i have the neccessary permissions now, 
> but I'd like to have the go-ahead from you guys first ;) )

yes, you do. but i was hoping we could review/discuss the first commit
beforehand, do you have it uploaded somewhere?

regards,
M Rawash