diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index d511905c..9c4309b1 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+LINKING EXCEPTION
+
+ In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License,
+ the authors give you unlimited permission to link the compiled
+ version of this library into combinations with other programs,
+ and to distribute those combinations without any restriction
+ coming from the use of this file. (The General Public License
+ restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they cover
+ modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into
+ a combined executable.)
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
 		       Version 2, June 1991