From 7f6be5eeffbc0e1aa1fbcd44fef901f1178591bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:20:28 +0000 Subject: * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Almost all wording by Eric Blake. --- COPYING | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'COPYING') diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index a2036fe475..9a209ca08b 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -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 ', 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. -- cgit v1.2.1