LGPL vs. GPL + Classpath Exception

[Matthew Flaschen]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> This was silly and duplication of work. So (back in 2000)
> the projects decided to merge. GNU Classpath used to be under the LGPL,
> but the libgcj people preferred a license more like other GCC runtime
> licenses (like libstdc++) which were all GPL + exception based (for the
> reasons stated above). So the merged project adopted that approach to be
> consistent with other GCC runtime libraries for other programming
> languages.

That makes sense, but OTOH glibc is under the LGPL
(http://directory.fsf.org/glibc.html), and part of the GCC runtime.  In
fact, it's the canonical LGPL library.

Matt Flaschen