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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2005-04-07 15:28:56 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2005-04-07 15:28:56 +0000
commit893cbaaf2f82243d6172a520ee3fbe34c67fdaea (patch)
treeccadd405972836e8c0765723cdc67bde7ed9898d
parent6e619393824922118317689ef59a73c556b7ef98 (diff)
added some blurb about the GnuTLS license
-rw-r--r--docs/LICENSE-MIXING12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/LICENSE-MIXING b/docs/LICENSE-MIXING
index 9321f2f77..2ee7b3e2f 100644
--- a/docs/LICENSE-MIXING
+++ b/docs/LICENSE-MIXING
@@ -32,7 +32,15 @@ OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
makes it "incompatible" with GPL. You are not allowed to ship binaries
that link with OpenSSL that includes GPL code (unless that specific
GPL code includes an exception for OpenSSL - a habit that is growing
- more and more common).
+ more and more common). If OpenSSL's licensing is a problem for you,
+ consider using GnuTLS instead.
+
+GnuTLS http://www.gnutls.org/
+
+ Uses the LGPL[3] license. If this is a problem for you, consider using
+ OpenSSL instead. Also note that GnuTLS itself depends on and uses
+ other libs (libgcrypt and libgpg-error) and they too are LGPL- or
+ GPL-licensed.
c-ares http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/license.html
@@ -84,3 +92,5 @@ OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html
[1] = GPL - GNU General Public License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
[2] = http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs details on
how to write such an exception to the GPL
+[3] = LGPL - GNU Lesser General Public License:
+ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html