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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2013-04-10 22:36:42 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2013-04-10 22:37:07 +0200
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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 new versions of the gmplib library used by GnuTLS
+are distributed under LGPLv3, and as such binaries of this library
+need to be distributed under LGPLv3. If this is undesirable older
+versions of the gmplib which are under LGPLv2.1 (e.g., version 4.2.1)
+may be used instead.
+
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