[oc] Re: Possible problem with LGPL - advice ?

[Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:16:35AM +0700, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 04:21, MikeJ wrote:
> > Is there any chance of providing an exception to those terms? Something
> > like:
> > 
> > This library is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it
> > under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
> > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at
> > your option) any later version. However, as an exception to section 6 of
> > the GNU Lesser General Public License, you are allowed to provide the
> > "work that uses the Library" in a form (e.g. hardware) that does not
> > give the user the possibility to replace the Library with a modified
> > version.
> 
> Isn't there a provision in the GPL and LGPL licenses that one
> can NOT make exceptions ?

Can't think of one.  If you're the copyright owner you can put it under
any license you wish after all.

It's common to make exceptions to allow linking GPL programs to closed
source non-system libraries.  This change however makes it incompatible
with standard GPL (i.e. you can't then take random GPL code and use it
in the GPL-with-exception program without the GPL code author's
permission).

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