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* COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Almost all wording by Eric Blake.

author	Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
date	Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:20:28 +0000
parents	40611dd456ca
children	aa5db38616a7

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7574 70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	1 $Id: COPYING,v 1.3 2006-10-26 16:20:28 eggert Exp $
5235 40611dd456ca update info on license situation Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> parents: 3563 diff changeset	2 The files in here are mostly copyright (C) Free Software Foundation, and
40611dd456ca update info on license situation Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> parents: 3563 diff changeset	3 are under assorted licenses. Mostly, but not entirely, GPL.
3563 1a9a7f5d6536 Checking initial copies various licenses, README, and general COPYING document. Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> parents: diff changeset	4
7574 70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	5 Many modules are provided dual-license, either GPL or LGPL at your
70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	6 option. The headers of files in the lib directory (e.g., lib/error.c)
70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	7 state GPL for convenience, since the bulk of current gnulib users are
70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	8 GPL'd programs. But the files in the modules directory (e.g.,
70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	9 modules/error) state the true license of each file, and when you use
70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	10 'gnulib-tool --lgpl --import <modules>', gnulib-tool either rewrites
70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	11 the files to have an LGPL header as part of copying them from gnulib
70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	12 to your project directory, or fails because the modules you requested
70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	13 were not licensed under LGPL.
70e0e23ed97a * COPYING: Explain how gnulib-tool converts licence headers. Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> parents: 5235 diff changeset	14
5235 40611dd456ca update info on license situation Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> parents: 3563 diff changeset	15 Some of the source files in lib/ have different licenses. Also, the
40611dd456ca update info on license situation Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> parents: 3563 diff changeset	16 copy of maintain.texi in doc/ has a verbatim-copying license, and
40611dd456ca update info on license situation Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> parents: 3563 diff changeset	17 doc/standards.texi and make-stds.texi are GFDL.