## Logback License

Logback source code and binaries are distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

    Logback: the reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging library for Java.

    Copyright (C) 2000-2008, QOS.ch

    This program is  free software; you can redistribute  it and/or modify
    it under the  terms of the GNU General Public  License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either  version 2 of the License, or (at
    your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

Logback will remain an open-source project distributed under the GPL 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.

Please note that logback is intended to be used behind the SLF4J API, which is licensed under an X11 type license.

If you wish to make a significant contribution to the logback project, we invite you to file Contributor License Agreement. The purpose of this agreement is to formalize the terms of your contribution and to protect the project in case of litigation.

### Classpath Exception

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 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 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 obliged to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.