If you look at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/, you will find:
GPL-2.0-only WITH GCC-exception-2.0
GPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0
GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-3.1
LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0
LGPL-2.1-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0
…but you will not find
GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0
It looks like you have correctly identified the SPDX expression, based
on the license notice header you quoted, so your next step should be to
file an issue on fedora-license-data asking for review of the new
license/exception combination:
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/new?type=ISSUE&description_template=license-review
– Ben Beasley (FAS: music)
On 19/10/2025 3:07 pm, Mark Wielaard via legal wrote:
Hi,
Valgrind has been upgraded to GPLv3+. I was packaging
valgrind-3.26.0-RC1 and redid the License tags.
There is one new tag where rpminspect complains:
GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0
https://artifacts.dev.testing-farm.io/3ccb5ff4-8019-45ff-ac91-f4642d28ed8f/
BAD Unapproved license in valgrind-1:3.26.0-0.1.RC1.fc44.src:
GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0 Not Waivable
Suggested remedy:
The specified license abbreviation is not listed as approved in
the\nlicense database. The license database is specified in the
rpminspect\nconfiguration file. Check this file and send a pull
request to the\nappropriate upstream project to update the
database. If the license\nis listed in the database but marked
unapproved, you may need to work\nwith the legal team regarding
options for this software.\n
It is not clear to me which/where this license database is or which
configuration file is being referred to. So I am hoping someone on
this list can point me to that and let me know whether and how to
update it to allow GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0.
For reference the files in question have this header:
This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the
Free Software Foundation gives you unlimited permission to link the
compiled version of this file into combinations with other programs,
and to distribute those combinations without any restriction coming
from the use of this file. (The General Public License restrictions
do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of
the file, and distribution when not linked into a combined
executable.)
Thanks,
Mark
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