From 3f3e397091ec29828bb1dfc07dbee7160428dd2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify the license for Debian. --- COPYING.LIB | 17 +++++++++++++++++ README | 13 ++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 1.8.3.1