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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2016-05-14 00:13:44 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2016-05-14 00:14:14 +0200
commitd4a74c2dcffbd562ef46280b60ef24a28a7a2ec3 (patch)
tree8a91b4965f89803b8e42834c17b6fb5d20f0f3c9
parent28e7edd96707d5f4f9df8fe0967e1ced3e88f91c (diff)
downloadgnutls-license.tar.gz
Added a LICENSE file [ci skip]license
-rw-r--r--LICENSE22
-rw-r--r--README-install.md17
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.
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