License needs clarification (which linking exception?)

Chris00 / ocaml-cairo

Binding to Cairo, a 2D Vector Graphics Library.

GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

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License needs clarification (which linking exception?) #15

Closed treinen closed 3 years ago

treinen commented 5 years ago

Hello,

the license header, for instance in the file "src/cairo.ml", says:

under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or
later as published by the Free Software Foundation, with the special
exception on linking described in the file LICENSE

However, the file LICENSE.md (I guess that is the file you mean) contains an almost verbatim copy of the LGPL-3, the only difference being minor layout changes. There is no special exception on linking to be found in this file.

Chris00 commented 5 years ago

I do no know whether the linking exception has already been combined with the LGPL 3—I'll have to investigate. Otherwise, using LGPL 2.1 may be simpler.

pombredanne commented 4 years ago

This could be --IMHO-- the Ocaml exception: https://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/license.en.html and https://spdx.org/licenses/OCaml-LGPL-linking-exception.html as this makes LGPL-licensed code possible when everything is statically linked and is the common exception used in the OCaml ecosystem?

Chris00 commented 3 years ago

I removed the linking exception.