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authorIvan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>2021-11-24 10:29:13 +0300
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* LICENSE: Add to title that it is a MIT-like license; reformat text about GNU-style build procedure. * README.md: Specify license type at the top of the file. * README.md (Copyright & Warranty, Contributors): Add information that the license is a MIT-like one.
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This is version 8.3.0 (next release development) of a conservative garbage
collector for C and C++.
+License: [MIT-style](LICENSE)
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## Download
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## Copyright & Warranty, Contributors
+Our intent is to make it easy to use bdwgc (libgc), in both free and
+proprietary software. Hence, the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage
+collector code that we expect to be linked dynamically or statically into
+a client application is covered by own license, which is similar in
+spirit to an MIT-style one.
+
The exact licensing information is provided in [LICENSE](LICENSE) file.
All the contributors are listed in [AUTHORS](AUTHORS) file.