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diff --git a/docs/LICENSE-MIXING b/docs/LICENSE-MIXING index 0f7f12ab6..796d3f728 100644 --- a/docs/LICENSE-MIXING +++ b/docs/LICENSE-MIXING @@ -27,29 +27,30 @@ libcurl http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html - Uses an Original BSD-style license with an announement clause that - 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). If OpenSSL's licensing is a problem for you, - consider using GnuTLS instead. + (May be used for SSL/TLS support) Uses an Original BSD-style license + with an announement clause that 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). 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. + (May be used for SSL/TLS support) 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 - Uses an MIT license that is very liberal and imposes no restrictions - on any other library or part you may link with. + (Used for asynchronous name resolves) Uses an MIT license that is very + liberal and imposes no restrictions on any other library or part you + may link with. zlib http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html - Uses an MIT-style license that shouldn't collide with any other - library. + (Used for compressed Transfer-Encoding support) Uses an MIT-style + license that shouldn't collide with any other library. krb4 @@ -59,33 +60,43 @@ krb4 of the code in libcurl that is written to deal with Kerberos4 likewise have such a license. -GSSAPI +MIT Kerberos http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dist/ - While nothing in particular says that a GSS/Kerberos5 library must use - any particular license, the one I've used (Heimdal) is Original BSD- - licensed with the announcement clause. + (May be used for GSS support) MIT licensed, that shouldn't collide + with any other parts. + +Heimdal http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/ + + (May be used for GSS support) Heimdal is Original BSD licensed with + the announcement clause. + +GNU GSS http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/ + + (May be used for GSS support) GNU GSS is GPL licensed. Note that you + may not distribute binary curl packages that uses this if you build + curl to also link and use any Original BSD licensed libraries! fbopenssl - Unclear license. Based on its name, I assume that it uses the OpenSSL - license and thus shares the same issues as described for OpenSSL - above. + (Used for SPNEGO support) Unclear license. Based on its name, I assume + that it uses the OpenSSL license and thus shares the same issues as + described for OpenSSL above. libidn http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html - Uses the GNU Lesser General Public License. LGPL is a variation of GPL - with slightly less aggressive "copyleft". This license requires more - requirements to be met when distributing binaries, see the license for - details. Also note that if you distribute a binary that includes this - library, you must also include the full LGPL license text. Please - properly point out what parts of the distributed package that the - license addresses. + (Used for IDNA support) Uses the GNU Lesser General Public + License. LGPL is a variation of GPL with slightly less aggressive + "copyleft". This license requires more requirements to be met when + distributing binaries, see the license for details. Also note that if + you distribute a binary that includes this library, you must also + include the full LGPL license text. Please properly point out what + parts of the distributed package that the license addresses. OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html - Uses a Modified BSD-style license. Since libcurl uses OpenLDAP as a - shared library only, I have not heard of anyone that ships OpenLDAP - linked with libcurl in an app. + (Used for LDAP support) Uses a Modified BSD-style license. Since + libcurl uses OpenLDAP as a shared library only, I have not heard of + anyone that ships OpenLDAP linked with libcurl in an app. [1] = GPL - GNU General Public License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html |