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On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 23:56, Steve D. Perkins wrote:
> I found information on the licensing for GNU Classpath, but that
> left me even more confused. For one thing, it's the GPL with a "special
> exception" that seems to essentially make it LGPL'ed (why do certain
> people hate the LGPL so much? do you really think calling it by another
> name makes it different?).
It is definitely different. The GPL+exception license we use does not
have the relinking requirement present in the LGPL. This makes it much
more friendly to embedded developers generating static executables (for
instance). The license is similar in spirit to the libgcc and libstdc++
licenses.