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authorWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>2007-08-22 09:52:59 +0000
committerWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>2007-08-22 09:52:59 +0000
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Made all library code LGPL.
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License
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- 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
- gcryptrnd - The random number daemon.
- getrandom - A client for that daemon.
-
- The documentation is available under the terms of the GPL.
+ The library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
+ General Public License (LGPL); see the file COPYING.LIB for the
+ actual terms. The helper programs (gcryptrnd and getrandom) as
+ well as the documentation are distributed under the terms of the
+ GNU General Public License (GPL); see the file COPYING for teh
+ actual terms.
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