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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-10-26 16:20:28 +0000 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-10-26 16:20:28 +0000 |
commit | 7f6be5eeffbc0e1aa1fbcd44fef901f1178591bc (patch) | |
tree | 029acda77db57a020d45e9c5ca6fda1192dd7836 /COPYING | |
parent | 6384ddb72cfa0d13c1126fc5b3aea3b10b921f9c (diff) | |
download | gnulib-7f6be5eeffbc0e1aa1fbcd44fef901f1178591bc.tar.gz |
* COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers.
Almost all wording by Eric Blake.
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@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@ -$Id: COPYING,v 1.2 2004-09-15 15:59:43 karl Exp $ +$Id: COPYING,v 1.3 2006-10-26 16:20:28 eggert Exp $ The files in here are mostly copyright (C) Free Software Foundation, and are under assorted licenses. Mostly, but not entirely, GPL. +Many modules are provided dual-license, either GPL or LGPL at your +option. The headers of files in the lib directory (e.g., lib/error.c) +state GPL for convenience, since the bulk of current gnulib users are +GPL'd programs. But the files in the modules directory (e.g., +modules/error) state the true license of each file, and when you use +'gnulib-tool --lgpl --import <modules>', gnulib-tool either rewrites +the files to have an LGPL header as part of copying them from gnulib +to your project directory, or fails because the modules you requested +were not licensed under LGPL. + Some of the source files in lib/ have different licenses. Also, the copy of maintain.texi in doc/ has a verbatim-copying license, and doc/standards.texi and make-stds.texi are GFDL. |