diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index 17c1ab54cda123f90efbaec82687b933718883bc..158a5e155de1bb09c2f52089a6557d51bd1f2d12 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -282,8 +282,12 @@ FAQ 5.1. I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library? - No. GPL'd software requires all parts of the final executable to be - licensed under GPL. + No, you can't distribute your program as a binary and you cannot + distribute the (lib)curl code your code. GPL'd software requires all parts + of the final executable to be licensed under GPL. + + However, nothing prevents you from distributing your program separately + from curl and libcurl and require the user to get it separately. 5.2. I have a closed-source program, can I use the libcurl library? diff --git a/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting b/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting index bf065899c98ee457c4a97dc4c41bd61fff036b91..60386e3d8c97dcb206979873785bbedf1814df5b 100644 --- a/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting +++ b/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting @@ -234,10 +234,10 @@ Version: 0.2 make them look the best possible for their particular browsers. They usually also do different kinds of javascript, vbscript etc. - At times, you will see that getting a page will curl will not return the very - same page that you see when getting the page with your browser. Then you know - it is time to set the User Agent field to fool the server into thinking - you're one of those browsers. + At times, you will see that getting a page with curl will not return the same + page that you see when getting the page with your browser. Then you know it + is time to set the User Agent field to fool the server into thinking you're + one of those browsers. To make curl look like Internet Explorer on a Windows 2000 box: