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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 |