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New license request: clause-6-exception-lgpl-2.1 [SPDX-Online-Tools] #2595

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xsuchy opened this issue Oct 30, 2024 · 1 comment
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New license request: clause-6-exception-lgpl-2.1 [SPDX-Online-Tools] #2595

xsuchy opened this issue Oct 30, 2024 · 1 comment

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xsuchy commented Oct 30, 2024

1. License Name: Clause 6 Exception to LGPL 2.1
2. Short identifier: clause-6-exception-lgpl-2.1
3. License Author or steward: Unknown
4. Comments: This was discovered during License review in Fedora Linux in https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/586
The license is used in haskell package polyparse. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/polyparse
5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/402
6. URL(s): https://hackage.haskell.org/package/polyparse-1.13/src/COPYRIGHT
7. OSI Status: Unknown
8. Example Projects: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/polyparse

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xsuchy commented Oct 30, 2024

Text of the exception:

As a relaxation of clause 6 of the LGPL, the copyright holders of this
library give permission to use, copy, link, modify, and distribute,
binary-only object-code versions of an executable linked with the
original unmodified Library, without requiring the supply of any
mechanism to modify or replace the Library and relink (clauses 6a,
6b, 6c, 6d, 6e), provided that all the other terms of clause 6 are
complied with.

Scancode tracks this as https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/src/licensedcode/data/licenses/clause-6-exception-lgpl-2.1.LICENSE

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