Author: ceki Date: Mon Apr 7 22:28:13 2008 New Revision: 1667 Modified: logback/trunk/logback-site/src/site/pages/license.html Log: - tentatively adding the "Classpath exception" pending further discussion Modified: logback/trunk/logback-site/src/site/pages/license.html ============================================================================== --- logback/trunk/logback-site/src/site/pages/license.html (original) +++ logback/trunk/logback-site/src/site/pages/license.html Mon Apr 7 22:28:13 2008 @@ -19,19 +19,16 @@ </div> <div id="content"> - <div class="section"> - <h2>Logback License</h2> - </div> - - <p> - Logback source code and binaries are distributed under the - <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html"> - GNU Lesser General Public License - </a> - as published by the Free Software Foundation. - </p> + <div class="section"> + <h2>Logback License</h2> + </div> + + <p>Logback source code and binaries are distributed under the <a + href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General + Public License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation. + </p> - <div class="source big"><pre>Logback: the reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging library for Java. + <div class="source"><pre>Logback: the reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging library for Java. Copyright (C) 2000-2006, QOS.ch @@ -39,21 +36,51 @@ it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.</pre></div> - <p>Please note that logback is intended to be used behind the - SLF4J API, which is licensed under <a - href="http://www.slf4j.org/license.html">an X11 type license</a>. - </p> - - <p>If you wish to make a significant contribution to the logback - project, we invite you to file <a href="cla.txt">Contributor - License Agreement</a>. The purpose of this agreement is to - formalize the terms of your contribution and to protect the - project in case of litigation. - </p> +<!-- =========================================== --> + +<p>Logback will remain an open-source project distributed under the +LGPL for the foreseeable future -- foreseeable as in the future you +can reasonably think or talk about. In other words, there are no plans +whatsoever to make logback a commercial project. +</p> + +<p>Please note that logback is intended to be used behind the SLF4J +API, which is licensed under <a +href="http://www.slf4j.org/license.html">an X11 type license</a>. +</p> + +<p>If you wish to make a significant contribution to the logback +project, we invite you to file <a href="cla.txt">Contributor License +Agreement</a>. The purpose of this agreement is to formalize the terms +of your contribution and to protect the project in case of litigation. +</p> + + +<h3>Classpath Exception</h3> + +<p>According to the terms of LGPL, a "Combined Work" is a work +produced by combining or linking an Application with logback (the +Library). In section 4, the LGPL mandates that one may convey a +Combined Work under terms of one's choice that, taken together, +effectively do not restrict modification of the portions of the +Library contained in the Combined Work and reverse engineering for +debugging such modifications. +</p> + +<p>As a special exception, the copyright holders of logback give you +permission to link logback 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 logback. If you modify logback, you may extend this exception +to your version of logback, but you are not obliged to do so. If you +do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your +version. +</p> + - - - <script src="templates/footer.js"></script> </div>