key: avisynth-linking-exception
short_name: Avisynth Linking Exception
name: Avisynth Linking Exception
category: Copyleft Limited
owner: AviSynth Library Project
homepage_url: http://avisynth.nl/users/fizick/docs/english/license.htm
is_exception: yes
spdx_license_key: LicenseRef-scancode-avisynth-linking-exception
text: |
  Linking Avisynth statically or dynamically with other modules is making a
  combined work based on Avisynth.  Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU
  General Public License cover the whole combination.

  As a special exception, the copyright holders of Avisynth give you
  permission to link Avisynth with independent modules that communicate
  with Avisynth solely through the interfaces defined in avisynth.h,
  regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to
  copy and distribute the resulting combined work under terms of your
  choice, provided that every copy of the combined work is accompanied by
  a complete copy of the source code of Avisynth (the version of Avisynth
  used to produce the combined work), being distributed under the terms of
  the GNU General Public License plus this exception.  An independent
  module is a module which is not derived from or based on Avisynth, such
  as 3rd-party filters, import and export plugins, or graphical user
  interfaces.