[logback-dev] svn commit: r1667 - logback/trunk/logback-site/src/site/pages

[noreply.ceki at qos.ch]

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>
+
 
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-	
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 <script src="templates/footer.js"></script>
 </div>