Re: [Classpathx-discuss] Licences

[David Brownell]

> I would like to ask all the developers if they would mind licencing
> their code under the "Classpath" licence.
> 
> The Classpath-licence is the GPL+an exception allowing linking to
> non-free code without infection.

The JAXP code is already under the "GPL + library exception"
license ... and having done a bit of homework yesterday on
that, I'm a bit curious why there's no FAQ on the topic at the
FSF web site.

The specific exception clause being:

 As a special exception, if you link this library with
 other files to produce an executable, this library does
 not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered
 by the GNU General Public License. This exception does
 not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable
 file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. 

I hope that's the exception you were thinking of, it's fairly
standard language among the GCC-related libraries.

> Apparently, this is not the same to the LGPL.

One person commented that "GPL + library exception" is
what people _thought_ the LGPL was giving them, but
really isn't.  Which is an interesting perspective on this!  :)

- Dave