New license request: CGAL-linking-exception [SPDX-Online-Tools]

[xsuchy]

1. License Name: CGAL Linking Exception
2. Short identifier: CGAL-linking-exception
3. License Author or steward: Unknown
4. Comments: This exception was found during Legal review in Fedora Linux https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/562 and it is used on OpenSCAD package.
5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/390
6. URL(s): https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/openscad-2021.01/COPYING#L3
7. OSI Status: Unknown
8. Example Projects: https://github.com/openscad/openscad

[xsuchy]

Text of the exception:

  As a special exception, you have permission to link this program
  with the CGAL library and distribute executables, as long as you
  follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the
  software in the executable aside from CGAL.

[hroncok]

I belive this is originally from OpenCSG, but it was since changed there.

[karsten-klein]

{metæffekt} Universe
canonical name: Linking Exception (CGAL)
short name: Linking-Exception-CGAL
category: Linking Exception CGAL
OSI status: none

Comment
+1 to add.