[Savannah-hackers] Re: [gnu.org #78894] another licensing question for savannah

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:27, address@hidden via RT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is the following license compatible with the (L)GPL?  (The url doesn't
> work in the description)

It's a very unclear exception, but since it only grants additional
rights, I believe it is compatible.

> Other License: 
> 
> RTK is proposed to be under so-called RPL (Radionica Public Lincese,
> http://www.radionica.org/rpl/v01.html). RPL is actually GNU Library
> General Public License (LGPL) v2
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) with following exceptions:
> 
>    1. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library
>       give permission for additional uses of the text contained in
>       this release of the library as licenced under the Radionica
>       Public Lincese, applying either version 2 of the Licence, or (at
>       your option) any later version of the Licence as published by
>       the copyright holders of version 2 of the Licence document.
> 
>    2. The exception is that you may use, copy, link, modify and
>       distribute under the user's own terms, binary object code
>       versions of works based on the Library.
> 
>    3. If you copy code from files distributed under the terms of the
>       GNU General Public Licence or the GNU Library General Public
>       Licence into a copy of this library, as this licence permits,
>       the exception does not apply to the code that you add in this
>       way. To avoid misleading anyone as to the status of such
>       modified files, you must delete this exception notice from such
>       code and/or adjust the licensing conditions notice accordingly.
> 
>    4. If you write modifications of your own for this library, it is
>       your choice whether to permit this exception to apply to your
>       modifications. If you do not wish that, you must delete the
>       exception notice from such code and/or adjust the licensing
>       conditions notice accordingly.  Package: RTK System name: rtk
>       Type: non-GNU
> 
> Thanks in advance,
-- 
-Dave Turner
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