From: Eric Biggers Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:39:01 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Update COPYING X-Git-Tag: v1.7.2~3 X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d589ed95c6e04fb13514408e426c986c6f53c356 Update COPYING - Use "or later" clause for GPLv3 and LGPLv3 - Make LGPL exception more general --- diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 81af0c4e..eb329f62 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -1,12 +1,16 @@ Unless otherwise specified, wimlib and all programs and scripts distributed with -it, including 'wimlib-imagex', are released under the GNU GPL (General Public -License), version 3. See COPYING.GPLv3 for the full text of this license. +it may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General +Public License; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later +version. See COPYING.GPLv3. -However, as of version 1.7.0, the following exception applies to wimlib itself ---- that is, the shared library or DLL file: If you do not use the libntfs-3g -support in wimlib --- that is, your application never uses the flags -WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_NTFS or WIMLIB_ADD_FLAG_NTFS, or wimlib is not linked to -libntfs-3g at all, such as is the case for the Windows builds distributed on -sourceforge.net --- you are also granted the rights of the GNU LGPL (Lesser -General Public License), version 3. See COPYING.LGPLv3 for the full text of -this additional license. +However, the following exception is granted. When not prohibited by conflict +with a third-party software license, you may opt to redistribute and/or modify +the library portion of wimlib under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public +License; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. +See COPYING.LGPLv3. + +The following paragraph is informational only. The above exception is known to +be relevant for the third-party library "libntfs-3g", which is licensed GPLv2+. +On UNIX-like systems, wimlib can optionally be compiled with libntfs-3g support. +However, a binary copy of wimlib that was compiled without libntfs-3g support +need not be affected by the libntfs-3g license (for example). diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0376c592..7ce85371 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Version 1.7.2-BETA: Some documentation improvements. + Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file. + Version 1.7.1: Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors. diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright index d5274087..40aa7fdf 100644 --- a/debian/copyright +++ b/debian/copyright @@ -3,19 +3,26 @@ Upstream-Name: wimlib Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wimlib Files: * -Copyright: 2012 Eric Biggers -License: GPLv3+ - This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under - the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software - Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later - version. - . - This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY - WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A - PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. - . - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program. If not, see - . - On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version - 3 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3". +Copyright: 2012, 2013, 2014 Eric Biggers +License: GPLv3+ with exception + Unless otherwise specified, wimlib and all programs and scripts distributed with + it may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General + Public License; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later + version. See COPYING.GPLv3. + . + However, the following exception is granted. When not prohibited by conflict + with a third-party software license, you may opt to redistribute and/or modify + the library portion of wimlib under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public + License; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. + See COPYING.LGPLv3. + . + The following paragraph is informational only. The above exception is known to + be relevant for the third-party library "libntfs-3g", which is licensed GPLv2+. + On UNIX-like systems, wimlib can optionally be compiled with libntfs-3g support. + However, a binary copy of wimlib that was compiled without libntfs-3g support + need not be affected by the libntfs-3g license (for example). + +Files: debian/* +License: Public domain + The Debian packaging scripts are free to be redistributed and/or modified with + no restrictions.