From 2a999d7988d886b5e887988c68095addbbf9a794 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Gesang Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 19:52:31 +0100 Subject: add linking exception to license --- COPYING | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'COPYING') diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 0a04128..4c06ca6 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3