Could you please better explain the meaning of the following LICENSE sentence?
Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination.
As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module.
The two sentences seem to be contradictory: is the final executable file (obtained by linking my own code with your library) under GPL or not? Sentence 1 would say "YES", while sentence 2 seems to let me free to copy and distribute the executable under license terms of my choice.
Could you please help?
Roberto