add linking exception to license

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diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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--- a/COPYING
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@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+As a special exception to the GNU Library General Public License, you
+may link, statically or dynamically, a "work that uses the Library"
+with a publicly distributed version of the Library to produce an
+executable file containing portions of the Library, and distribute
+that executable file under terms of your choice, without any of the
+additional requirements listed in clause 6 of the GNU Library General
+Public License.  By "a publicly distributed version of the Library",
+we mean either the unmodified Library as distributed by upstream
+author, or a modified version of the Library that is distributed under
+the conditions defined in clause 3 of the GNU Library General Public
+License.  This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons
+why the executable file might be covered by the GNU Library General
+Public License.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
                    GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                        Version 3, 29 June 2007