On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:10 +0100, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
Eventually the text became like this: (Lazarus)
"These files are distributed under the Library GNU General Public
License (see the file COPYING.LGPL) with the following modification:
As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms
of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent
module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An
independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on
this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception
to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If
you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your
version."
This is known as the GNU Classpath exception. It is ok for Fedora,
although, I usually only see it with the GPL as opposed to the LGPL,
since the LGPL has additional relinking requirements that aren't
directly superceded by this exception.
Use:
# GNU Classpath style exception, see LICENSE
License: LGPLv2+ with exceptions
(with the correct LGPL base versioning and correct file to LICENSE text,
of course).
~spot