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| author | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2019-08-23 19:59:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2019-08-23 19:59:36 -0700 |
| commit | 27a722e96f281974e9f49887e9470422dcb1da91 (patch) | |
| tree | 09a910b29a6b31e7661f70b2b2e76f0cb5e48f0b /METALICENSE | |
| parent | 10fd98a804097002f9331e48fc6f84f3f3d8f3e2 (diff) | |
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licensing: describe RSA-MD situation.
* LICENSE: Mention MD5 component.
* METALICENSE: There are more libraries than linenoise; remove
focus on linenoise and make wording generic. Add description
of the RSA situation, whereby more permissive redistribution
terms were granted by the Feb 23, 2000 memo.
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diff --git a/METALICENSE b/METALICENSE index f105dbe2..169c28d8 100644 --- a/METALICENSE +++ b/METALICENSE @@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ Copyright (C) 2009-2019, Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>. All rights reserved. The document named LICENSE specifies the license for the TXR program, -including the linenoise library which it uses, found in the -linenoise/ subdirectory. Linenoise uses exactly the same Two-Clause -BSD License, and so the two licenses are combined. +including the library modules which it it uses, most of which are likewise +BSD licensed. The MPI library, found in the mpi/ subdirectory, was developed over the yeras 1998-2006 by Michael J. Fromberger. Its license consists @@ -22,6 +21,14 @@ by Michael J. Fromberger. The above text can be reasonably understood to constitute a license grant which is compatible with TXR's Two-Clause BSD license in the sense that it is at least as permissive. +The RSA-derived MD5 digest routines are used in in accordance with the +permission granted by a February 23, 2000 memo from John Linn +<jlinn@rsasecurity.com> to the IETF. License-like wording from this memo +has been placed by the TXR project into block comments of the md5.c +and md5.h files. The permission is compatible with the BSD license, +as it allows unfettered redistribution and use, without any advertizing +clauses. + TXR is ported to Windows with the help of a derivative of the Cygwin library. For user convenience, a packaged version of TXR includes the CYGWIN1.DLL, in accordance with the terms of Cygwin's license, the GNU Lesser Public License, |