On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:38 PM, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maximilian Gaß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm currently packaging libopenoffice-oodoc-perl and stumbled upon its >> license: >> >> > This software is free software. It is subject to the terms and >> > conditions of both >> > >> > - the GNU Lesser General Public Licence, version 2.1, of the >> > Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org); > > This licence is known to be fine for main, but contains the key phrase > "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' > exercise of the rights granted herein" in section 10. So, I think > that if the other licence contains any restrictions to copying not > already in LGPL-2.1 then we can't satisfy both licences at the same > time and so have no permission to copy it.
It sounds like upstream may have meant to go for a dual-licensing arrangement, but incorrectly stated "both" rather than "either" - it'd probably be a good idea to contact upstream and ask for clarification. Certainly if this was a dual-license arrangement with LGPL+$anything it would be acceptable for main. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
