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authorSimon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>2011-08-03 09:10:21 +0200
committerSimon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>2011-08-03 09:10:21 +0200
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Clarify licensing.
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@@ -102,11 +102,13 @@ deserve our help) an advantage over non-free projects (which do not
deserve our help, since they refuse to share with us). For information, see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html.
-The GNU LPGL applies to the main gnutls library, while
-the gnutls-extra library is under the GPL. The gnutls-extra library
-contains the code for "GnuTLS Inner Application" support and the
-OpenSSL compatibility layer. The gnutls library is located in the
-lib/ directory, while the gnutls-extra library is at libextra/.
+The GNU LGPL applies to the main GnuTLS library, while the
+gnutls-extra and gnutls-openssl libraries are under the GPL. The
+gnutls library is located in the lib/ directory, while the
+gnutls-extra and gnutls-openssl library is at libextra/.
+
+For the GnuTLS version 3.0.0 release we upgraded the license of the
+core library to LGPL version 3 or later.
For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.