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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 ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/pub/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, except two binaries, which are not built
- in this package. See below for details. The documentation is licensed under
- the GPL, see below.
-
- Excerpt from upstream's README:
-
- License
- -------
-
- Most of this library is distributed under the terms of the GNU
- Lesser General Public License (LGPL); see the file COPYING.LIB for
- the actual terms. However some parts are distributed under the
- GNU General Public License (GPL) so if you configure Libgcrypt to
- include these modules, you have to comply with the conditions of
- the GPL as found in the file COPYING. The modules under the GPL
- are:
-
- rndunix - Entropy gatherer for Unices without a /dev/random
- rndw32 - Entropy gatherer for MS Windows
-
- 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, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
- * 2004, 2005 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, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
- -------------
-
- 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 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 ``Copying''.
- -------------
-
- 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'.
-
-