What is the Classpath exception?
The Classpath exception was developed by the Free Software Foundation’s GNU/Classpath Project (see http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html). It allows you to link an application available under any license to a library that is part of software licensed under GPL v2, without that application being subject to the GPL’s requirement to be itself offered to the public under the GPL. The pertinent text of the “Classpath” exception to the GPL v2 license is: “CLASSPATH” EXCEPTION TO THE GPL VERSION 2 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License Version 2 cover the whole combination. 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 unde
The Classpath exception was developed by the Free Software Foundation’s GNU/Classpath Project (see http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html). It allows you to link an application available under any license to a library that is part of software licensed under GPL v2, without that application being subject to the GPL’s requirement to be itself offered to the public under the GPL.
The Classpath exception was developed by the Free Software Foundation’s GNU/Classpath Project (see http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html). It allows you to link an application available under any license to a library that is part of software licensed under GPL v2, without that application being subject to the GPL’s requirement to be itself offered to the public under the GPL.
