[Dune] Dune license

[Andreas Lauser]

Hi,

On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 10:12:01 CEST you wrote:
> The license we have chosen is about as good as things can get, as it is the
> same license as the one that was used for the GNU libstdc++. Later (with
> the design of GPL3/LGPL3) the situation of template code was already
> considered in the LGPL, so that no additional exception would be necessary.

Do you actually have a link for this? I wanted to convince myself of this and 
followed the one on the Dune website and the formulation of the libstdc++ 
template exception is legally sound (as far as I can tell), while DUNE's is 
very pretty casual.

> At the time we started DUNE, there was no LGPL3...

yes, that's why adding a "or later" clause would be very useful.

> Regarding Linux distributions, Debian is very strict and has people with a
> very good legal understanding of the corner cases of licenses. Apparently
> Debian didn't consider this license to be problematic. So please stop
> spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt [1].

As far as I know, Debian does not have any DUNE based packages which uses a 
non-GPL2 compatible licese in their repository, so they do not need to care.

cheers
  Andreas

-- 
Writing non-trivial software that is correct (for any meaningful definition of
correct) is beyond the current capabilities of the human species.
  -- Wesley Aptekar-Cassels
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