New license request: clause-6-exception-lgpl-2.1 [SPDX-Online-Tools]

[xsuchy]

1. License Name: Clause 6 Exception to LGPL 2.1
2. Short identifier: clause-6-exception-lgpl-2.1
3. License Author or steward: Unknown
4. Comments: This was discovered during License review in Fedora Linux in https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/586
The license is used in haskell package polyparse. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/polyparse
5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/402
6. URL(s): https://hackage.haskell.org/package/polyparse-1.13/src/COPYRIGHT
7. OSI Status: Unknown
8. Example Projects: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/polyparse

[xsuchy]

Text of the exception:

As a relaxation of clause 6 of the LGPL, the copyright holders of this
library give permission to use, copy, link, modify, and distribute,
binary-only object-code versions of an executable linked with the
original unmodified Library, without requiring the supply of any
mechanism to modify or replace the Library and relink (clauses 6a,
6b, 6c, 6d, 6e), provided that all the other terms of clause 6 are
complied with.

Scancode tracks this as https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/src/licensedcode/data/licenses/clause-6-exception-lgpl-2.1.LICENSE

[karsten-klein]

{metæffekt} Universe
canonical name: Linking Exception (LGPL Clause 6)
short name: Linking-Exception-LGPL-clause-6
category: Linking Exception LGPL
ScanCode reference id: clause-6-exception-lgpl-2.1
OSI status: none

ScanCode
matched id: clause-6-exception-lgpl-2.1

Comment
+1 to add. Discuss options to generalize exceptions.

[jlovejoy]

+1 to add (need to have a think about id though)

[copernicat]

+1 to add, though it can't be named this since it is not the only clause 6 exception.

[Pizza-Ria]

Is this being added as an exception or as a license? I think it is an exception; if so, +1. Currently deferring to @jlovejoy and @copernicat for the ID.

[jlovejoy]

@Pizza-Ria yes, as an exception. Now we just need an id!