This package was debianized by Ivo Timmermans <[email protected]> on
Fri,  3 Aug 2001 10:02:38 +0200.
It was taken over by Matthias Urlichs <[email protected]>, and is now
maintained by Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> Eric Dorland
<[email protected]>, James Westby <[email protected]>


It was downloaded from http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/.

Upstream Authors: Werner Koch and others.

Copyright:

Most of the package is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) version 2.1 (or later), except for helper and debugging
binaries. See below for details. The documentation is licensed under
the GPLv2 (or later), see below.

Excerpt from upstream's README:

    The library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
    General Public License (LGPL); see the file COPYING.LIB for the
    actual terms.  The helper programs (gcryptrnd and getrandom) as
    well as the documentation are distributed under the terms of the
    GNU General Public License (GPL); see the file COPYING for teh
    actual terms.

    This library used to be available under the GPL - this was changed
    with version 1.1.7 with the rationale that there are now many free
    crypto libraries available and many of them come with capabilities
    similar to Libcrypt.  We decided that to foster the use of
    cryptography in Free Software an LGPLed library would make more
    sense because it avoids problems due to license incompatibilities
    between some Free Software licenses and the GPL.

    Please note that in many cases it is better for a library to be
    licensed under the GPL, so that it provides an advantage for free
    software projects.  The Lesser GPL is so named because it does
    less to protect the freedom of the users of the code that it
    covers.  See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html for
    more explanation.

An example of the license headers of the LGPL is

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   Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
                 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This file is part of Libgcrypt.

   Libgcrypt is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
   the License, or (at your option) any later version.

   Libgcrypt 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
   License along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser
General Public License can be found in
`/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL';

The documentation licensed under the GPL
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Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version. The text of the license can be found in the
section entitled ``GNU General Public License''.
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On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the text of the GNU General Public License,
version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.