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- XZ Utils Licensing
- ==================
- Different licenses apply to different files in this package. Here
- is a rough summary of which licenses apply to which parts of this
- package (but check the individual files to be sure!):
- - liblzma is in the public domain.
- - xz, xzdec, and lzmadec command line tools are in the public
- domain unless GNU getopt_long had to be compiled and linked
- in from the lib directory. The getopt_long code is under
- GNU LGPLv2.1+.
- - The scripts to grep, diff, and view compressed files have been
- adapted from gzip. These scripts and their documentation are
- under GNU GPLv2+.
- - All the documentation in the doc directory and most of the
- XZ Utils specific documentation files in other directories
- are in the public domain.
- - Translated messages are in the public domain.
- - The build system contains public domain files, and files that
- are under GNU GPLv2+ or GNU GPLv3+. None of these files end up
- in the binaries being built.
- - Test files and test code in the tests directory, and debugging
- utilities in the debug directory are in the public domain.
- - The extra directory may contain public domain files, and files
- that are under various free software licenses.
- You can do whatever you want with the files that have been put into
- the public domain. If you find public domain legally problematic,
- take the previous sentence as a license grant. If you still find
- the lack of copyright legally problematic, you have too many
- lawyers.
- As usual, this software is provided "as is", without any warranty.
- If you copy significant amounts of public domain code from XZ Utils
- into your project, acknowledging this somewhere in your software is
- polite (especially if it is proprietary, non-free software), but
- naturally it is not legally required. Here is an example of a good
- notice to put into "about box" or into documentation:
- This software includes code from XZ Utils <https://tukaani.org/xz/>.
- The following license texts are included in the following files:
- - COPYING.LGPLv2.1: GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1
- - COPYING.GPLv2: GNU General Public License version 2
- - COPYING.GPLv3: GNU General Public License version 3
- Note that the toolchain (compiler, linker etc.) may add some code
- pieces that are copyrighted. Thus, it is possible that e.g. liblzma
- binary wouldn't actually be in the public domain in its entirety
- even though it contains no copyrighted code from the XZ Utils source
- package.
- If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask the author(s) for more
- information.
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