[Fedora-legal-list] Falcon Programming Language license

[Michel Salim]

On Jan 19, 2008 5:47 AM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 11:36 +0100, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
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> > Hello,
> > I have submitted the Falcon package for review and inclusion at
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> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428603
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> > I will clear the rpmlint report later today.
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> > The Falcon Programming Language is released under FPLL: this is mainly
> > an Apache2 license modified to extend the openness of the license to
> > the embedding application and to the scripts. Here I am submitting the
> > license to fedora-legal for approval.
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> I've passed this on to the FSF's lawyers for review.
>
Spot,

Any news on that review? It seems to me that if the only divergence
from ASL 2.0 is the *granting* of additional rights, then the only
worry should be that of a Falcon-licensed application linking to an
incompatibly-licensed library (which the Falcon interpreter does not).

Thanks,

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Michel Salim
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