summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-12-06 12:52:18 +0100
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-12-06 13:27:18 +0100
commit151333164ece49fdba3fe5c4bbdc3333cd9ae66d (patch)
tree1ce94451303f000cae49706f861fc004f328bf3b /README
parent389c09fa0932f260b2cb17b8b57d9835326e10c6 (diff)
downloadopenssl-new-151333164ece49fdba3fe5c4bbdc3333cd9ae66d.tar.gz
Change license to the Apache License v2.0
This applies to the 'master' git branch and OpenSSL version 3.0.0 and up. Pre-3.0.0 versions retain the previous license. The boilerplate will change in increments after this change. Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7764)
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r--README9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index fe3f98070c..3559566414 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@
full-strength general purpose cryptographic library.
OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young
- and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under a dual-license (the
- OpenSSL license plus the SSLeay license), which means that you are free to
- get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes as long as you
- fulfill the conditions of both licenses.
+ and Tim J. Hudson.
+
+ The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, which means
+ that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial
+ purposes as long as you fulfill its conditions.
OVERVIEW
--------