From a024a3606746f33acd9082b142ccfce32c0eece7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:18:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] I think this text won't be useful. --- gpl-lgpl.tex | 36 ------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index 7876190..efaadc6 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -3169,42 +3169,6 @@ additional requirements in violation of the GPL. It can be seen that additional permissions in other licenses do not raise any problems of license compatibility. -% FIXME: minor rewrites needed - -Section 7 relaxes the prohibition on further restrictions slightly by -enumerating, in subsection 7b, a limited list of categories of additional -requirements that may be placed on code without violating GPLv3. The list -includes the items that were listed in Draft 1, though rewritten for clarity. -It also includes a new catchall category for terms that might not obviously -fall within one of the other categories but which are precisely equivalent to -GPLv3 conditions, or which deny permission for activities clearly not -permitted by GPLv3. We have carefully considered but rejected proposals to -expand this list further. We have also rejected suggestions, made by some -discussion committee members, that the Affero clause requirement (7d in Draft -1 and 7b4 in Draft 2) be removed, though we have revised it in response to -certain comments. We are unwavering in our view that the Affero requirement -is a legitimate one, and we are committed to achieving compatibility of the -Affero GPL with GPLv3. - -% FIXME: minor rewrites needed - -A GPL licensee may place an additional requirement on code for which the -licensee has or can give appropriate copyright permission, but only if that -requirement falls within the list given in subsection 7b. Placement of any -other kind of additional requirement continues to be a violation of the -license. Additional requirements that are in the 7b list may not be removed, -but if a user receives GPL'd code that purports to include an additional -requirement not in the 7b list, the user may remove that requirement. Here -we were particularly concerned to address the problem of program authors who -purport to license their works in a misleading and possibly -self-contradictory fashion, using the GPL together with unacceptable added -restrictions that would make those works non-free software. - -\section{GPLv3~\S7: Explicit Compatibility} - - -% FIXME: probably mostly still right, needs some updates, though. - In GPLv3 we take a new approach to the issue of combining GPL'd code with code governed by the terms of other free software licenses. Our view, though it was not explicitly stated in GPLv2 itself, was that GPLv2 allowed such