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- This package was debianized by Ivo Timmermans <ivo@debian.org> on
- Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:02:38 +0200.
- It was taken over by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@debian.org>, and is now
- maintained by Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> Eric Dorland
- <eric@debian.org>, James Westby <jw+debian@jameswestby.net>
- 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
- -------------
- 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/>.
- -------------
- 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
- -------------
- 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''.
- -------------
- 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'.
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