The GNU Lesser General Public License
While version 2.1 of the LGPL was a standalone licence, the current LGPL version 3 is based on a reference to the GPL.
Compared to the GNU Classpath license above, the LGPL formulates more requirements to the linking exception: you must allow modification of the portions of the library you use and reverse engineering (of your program and the library) for debugging such modifications.
Read more about this topic: GPL Linking Exception
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