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+XZ Utils Licensing |
+================== |
+ |
+ Different licenses apply to different files in this package. Here |
+ is a rough summary of which licenses apply to which parts of this |
+ package (but check the individual files to be sure!): |
+ |
+ - liblzma is in the public domain. |
+ |
+ - xz, xzdec, and lzmadec command line tools are in the public |
+ domain unless GNU getopt_long had to be compiled and linked |
+ in from the lib directory. The getopt_long code is under |
+ GNU LGPLv2.1+. |
+ |
+ - The scripts to grep, diff, and view compressed files have been |
+ adapted from gzip. These scripts and their documentation are |
+ under GNU GPLv2+. |
+ |
+ - All the documentation in the doc directory and most of the |
+ XZ Utils specific documentation files in other directories |
+ are in the public domain. |
+ |
+ - Translated messages are in the public domain. |
+ |
+ - The build system contains public domain files, and files that |
+ are under GNU GPLv2+ or GNU GPLv3+. None of these files end up |
+ in the binaries being built. |
+ |
+ - Test files and test code in the tests directory, and debugging |
+ utilities in the debug directory are in the public domain. |
+ |
+ - The extra directory may contain public domain files, and files |
+ that are under various free software licenses. |
+ |
+ You can do whatever you want with the files that have been put into |
+ the public domain. If you find public domain legally problematic, |
+ take the previous sentence as a license grant. If you still find |
+ the lack of copyright legally problematic, you have too many |
+ lawyers. |
+ |
+ As usual, this software is provided "as is", without any warranty. |
+ |
+ If you copy significant amounts of public domain code from XZ Utils |
+ into your project, acknowledging this somewhere in your software is |
+ polite (especially if it is proprietary, non-free software), but |
+ naturally it is not legally required. Here is an example of a good |
+ notice to put into "about box" or into documentation: |
+ |
+ This software includes code from XZ Utils <http://tukaani.org/xz/>. |
+ |
+ The following license texts are included in the following files: |
+ - COPYING.LGPLv2.1: GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 |
+ - COPYING.GPLv2: GNU General Public License version 2 |
+ - COPYING.GPLv3: GNU General Public License version 3 |
+ |
+ Note that the toolchain (compiler, linker etc.) may add some code |
+ pieces that are copyrighted. Thus, it is possible that e.g. liblzma |
+ binary wouldn't actually be in the public domain in its entirety |
+ even though it contains no copyrighted code from the XZ Utils source |
+ package. |
+ |
+ If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask the author(s) for more |
+ information. |
+ |
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