From 27a722e96f281974e9f49887e9470422dcb1da91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kaz Kylheku Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:59:36 -0700 Subject: 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. --- METALICENSE | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'METALICENSE') diff --git a/METALICENSE b/METALICENSE index f105dbe2..169c28d8 100644 --- a/METALICENSE +++ b/METALICENSE @@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ Copyright (C) 2009-2019, Kaz Kylheku . 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 + 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, -- cgit v1.2.3