Re: Clarification to the license of Classpath (excluding the AWT code)

[Richard Stallman]

    add the following text to the Classpath exception, giving ** explicit ** 
    permission to carry the exception to derivative work, as originally 
intended:

    "Note that people who make modified versions of Classpath are not
    obligated to grant this special exception for their modified versions;
    it is their choice whether to do so.  The GNU General Public License
    gives permission to release a modified version without this exception;
    this exception also makes it possible to release a modified version
    which carries forward this exception."

Adding this is a good idea.  However, it occurs to me that maybe we
should change the rest of the text to make it more like what SableVM
uses.  That text seems to be clearer.  Would you like to take a stab
at writing such a new version?