Commit 6d8a208d authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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mention the exception only once ;-)

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@@ -12,12 +12,11 @@ I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice!

One common dilemma is that GPL[1]-licensed code is not allowed to be linked
with code licensed under the Original BSD license (with the announcement
clause, unless there's a specified exception in the GPL-licensed module). You
may still build your own copies that use them all, but distributing them as
binaries would be to violate the GPL license - unless you accompany your
license with an exception[2]. This particular problem was addressed when the
Modified BSD license was created, which does not have the annoncement clause
that collides with GPL.
clause). You may still build your own copies that use them all, but
distributing them as binaries would be to violate the GPL license - unless you
accompany your license with an exception[2]. This particular problem was
addressed when the Modified BSD license was created, which does not have the
annoncement clause that collides with GPL.

libcurl http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html