[darcs-users] Re: how to redistribute darcs+Eclipse (was: Darcs API?)

Aaron Denney wnoise at ofb.net
Fri Jun 3 18:44:36 UTC 2005


On 2005-06-03, zooko at zooko.com <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> 3.  Add the following text to the license:
>
> "As a special exception, you have permission to link this program
>  with code which is licensed under the Common Public Licence or the Eclipse
>  Public Licence, as long as you follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in 
>  regard to all of the software in the executable aside from the software which
>  is licensed under the Common Public License or the Eclipse Public License."
>
> This would allow the redistribution of works which combined darcs and CPL'ed
> code, but it would not allow the redistribution of works which combined darcs
> and proprietary code.
>
> That special exception text is derived from the Free Software Foundation's
> suggested special exception text to deal with the Q Public License.  See [2]
> for historical details.
>
> [2] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses

Wouldn't this also keep darcs from incorporating GPLed code that didn't
have this exception?   Because we can't grant rights for others to mix
such code (or derived works) with CPL code.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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