From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> <"Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>">
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:32:32 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Clarify the license for Debian.
X-Git-Tag: 0.6.1.1~29
X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f3e397091ec29828bb1dfc07dbee7160428dd2d;p=ocaml-libvirt.git

Clarify the license for Debian.
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diff --git a/COPYING.LIB b/COPYING.LIB
index ba2be48..93372ad 100644
--- a/COPYING.LIB
+++ b/COPYING.LIB
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+The Library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General
+Public License version 2 (included below).
+
+As a special exception to the GNU Library General Public License, you
+may link, statically or dynamically, a "work that uses the Library"
+with a publicly distributed version of the Library to produce an
+executable file containing portions of the Library, and distribute
+that executable file under terms of your choice, without any of the
+additional requirements listed in clause 6 of the GNU Library General
+Public License.  By "a publicly distributed version of the Library",
+we mean either the unmodified Library as distributed by INRIA, or a
+modified version of the Library that is distributed under the
+conditions defined in clause 2 of the GNU Library General Public
+License.  This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons
+why the executable file might be covered by the GNU Library General
+Public License.
+
 
                   GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                        Version 2.1, February 1999
diff --git a/README b/README
index 78a4df8..d20db5e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ http://libvirt.org/
 This is a complete set of OCaml bindings around libvirt, exposing all
 known functionality to OCaml programs.
 
-
 Building
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@@ -93,6 +92,18 @@ doc' and browse the HTML documentation in the html/ subdirectory.
 For documentation on libvirt itself, see http://libvirt.org/html/
 
 
+License
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The library is distributed under the GNU LGPL, version 2 or above,
+with the OCaml linking exception.  Please see COPYING.LIB for details.
+
+The standalone program 'mlvirsh' is distributed under the GNU GPL,
+version 2 or above.  Please see COPYING for details.
+
+Examples are public domain.
+
+
 Subdirectories
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