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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2016-05-14 00:13:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2016-05-14 00:14:14 +0200 |
| commit | d4a74c2dcffbd562ef46280b60ef24a28a7a2ec3 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a91b4965f89803b8e42834c17b6fb5d20f0f3c9 | |
| parent | 28e7edd96707d5f4f9df8fe0967e1ced3e88f91c (diff) | |
| download | gnutls-license.tar.gz | |
Added a LICENSE file [ci skip]license
| -rw-r--r-- | LICENSE | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README-install.md | 17 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..284635d4d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +LICENSING +========= + +Since GnuTLS version 3.1.10, the core library is released under +the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or later +(see COPYING.LESSER for the license terms). + +The GNU LGPL applies to the main GnuTLS library, while the +included applications as well as gnutls-openssl +library are under the GNU GPL version 3. The gnutls library is +located in the lib/ and libdane/ directories, while the applications +in src/ and, the gnutls-openssl library is at extra/. + + +Note, however, that the nettle and the gmp libraries which are +GnuTLS dependencies, they are distributed under a LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+ dual +license. As such binaries linking to them need to adhere to either LGPLv3+ +or the GPLv2+ license. + +For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package +note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. + diff --git a/README-install.md b/README-install.md index 6ab8d569e8..6445969683 100644 --- a/README-install.md +++ b/README-install.md @@ -105,22 +105,7 @@ commits. Please see http://www.gnutls.org/lists.html. LICENSING ========= -Since GnuTLS version 3.1.10, the core library has been released under -the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or later. - -Note, however, that version 6.0.0 and later of the gmplib library used -by GnuTLS are distributed under a LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+ dual license, and -as such binaries of this library need to adhere to either LGPLv3+ or -GPLv2+ license. - -The GNU LGPL applies to the main GnuTLS library, while the -included applications as well as gnutls-openssl -library are under the GNU GPL version 3. The gnutls library is -located in the lib/ and libdane/ directories, while the applications -in src/ and, the gnutls-openssl library is at extra/. - -For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package -note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. +See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file. BUGS |