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

Open xsuchy opened 3 weeks ago

xsuchy commented 3 weeks ago

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

xsuchy commented 3 weeks ago

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