Add Exception Clause to vk.xml Apache 2 license, to enable Wine and

other OSS projects to use code they generate from vk.xml together with
GPL code.
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Jon Leech 2018-05-21 18:09:15 -07:00
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@ -15,8 +15,24 @@ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License. limitations under the License.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Exceptions to the Apache 2.0 License: ----
As an exception, if you use this Software to generate code and portions of
this Software are embedded into the generated code as a result, you may
redistribute such product without providing attribution as would otherwise
be required by Sections 4(a), 4(b) and 4(d) of the License.
In addition, if you combine or link code generated by this Software with
software that is licensed under the GPLv2 or the LGPL v2.0 or 2.1
("`Combined Software`") and if a court of competent jurisdiction determines
that the patent provision (Section 3), the indemnity provision (Section 9)
or other Section of the License conflicts with the conditions of the
applicable GPL or LGPL license, you may retroactively and prospectively
choose to deem waived or otherwise exclude such Section(s) of the License,
but only in their entirety and only with respect to the Combined Software.
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This file, vk.xml, is the Vulkan API Registry. It is a critically important This file, vk.xml, is the Vulkan API Registry. It is a critically important
and normative part of the Vulkan Specification, including a canonical and normative part of the Vulkan Specification, including a canonical
machine-readable definition of the API, parameter and member validation machine-readable definition of the API, parameter and member validation