Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Jason Tibbitts who has been kindly reviewing many of my packages raises a question about the License field for a common license for OCaml.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432482
The license starts with this preamble, and then continues with the ordinary LGPLv2. Note that this license is more permissive than the standard LGPL, so this is not a question about whether this is free software or not.
Imo, License: LPGLv2 with exceptions is perfectly descriptive and valid. Folks will have to look at the license file for details anyway. For example, see also qt4 packaging that uses something similar.
-- Rex