so the question is: why have the linking exception instead of LGPL

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Subject: so the question is: why have the linking exception instead of LGPL
From: green at redhat.com (Anthony Green)
Date: Tue Mar 7 17:00:09 2006
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On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 17:18 +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote:
>      Why did Classpath ever go with that esoteric linking exception 
> instead of simple LGPL?

To enable static linking with proprietary software without the LGPL's
re-link requirement.

AG

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