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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2017-03-27 21:42:03 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2017-03-27 21:42:03 +0200
commitdb6f1f397f45ccd3c11d16352ed46a9c1eae3442 (patch)
treee0b9334e2637f17696c796ac13b2c39294bf9233 /README
parent0250cb64565a7d5238bbc751225d4b0236ef8316 (diff)
parent6b73edd95d603e27d55d4905134ac1327d426534 (diff)
Merge tag 'upstream/0.9.7'
Upstream version 0.9.7
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diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -45,8 +45,22 @@ As usual for GNU packages:
Copyright
---------
-The libunistring library and its header files are under the GNU LGPL, see
-file COPYING.LIB. This license is based on the GNU GPL, see file COPYING.
+The libunistring library and its header files are dual-licensed under
+"the GNU LGPLv3+ or the GNU GPLv2". This means, you can use it under either
+ - the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3 or
+ (at your option) any later version, or
+ - the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, or
+ - the same dual license "the GNU LGPLv3+ or the GNU GPLv2".
+
+You find the GNU LGPL version 3 in the file COPYING.LIB. This license is
+based on the GNU GPL version 3, see file COPYING.
+
+You can find the GNU GPL version 2 at
+<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.
+
+Note: This dual license makes it possible for the libunistring library
+to be used by packages under GPLv2 or GPLv2+ licenses, in particular. See
+the table in <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility>.
The documentation is under another license; see in the documentation.
@@ -54,7 +68,7 @@ The documentation is under another license; see in the documentation.
Download
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- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.6.tar.gz
+ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.7.tar.gz
Homepage
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