Logback License

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

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

Copyright (C) 2000-2006, QOS.ch

This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation.

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.

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

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.

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.