Commit 893cbaaf authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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added some blurb about the GnuTLS license

parent 6e619393

docs/LICENSE-MIXING

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@@ -32,7 +32,15 @@ OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html 
        makes it "incompatible" with GPL. You are not allowed to ship binaries

        that link with OpenSSL that includes GPL code (unless that specific

        GPL code includes an exception for OpenSSL - a habit that is growing

        more and more common).

        more and more common). If OpenSSL's licensing is a problem for you,

        consider using GnuTLS instead.



GnuTLS  http://www.gnutls.org/



        Uses the LGPL[3] license. If this is a problem for you, consider using

        OpenSSL instead. Also note that GnuTLS itself depends on and uses

        other libs (libgcrypt and libgpg-error) and they too are LGPL- or

        GPL-licensed.



c-ares  http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/license.html
@@ -84,3 +92,5 @@ OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html 
[1] = GPL - GNU General Public License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

[2] = http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs details on

      how to write such an exception to the GPL

[3] = LGPL - GNU Lesser General Public License:

      http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html