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@@ -58,6 +58,27 @@ See INSTALL or the following wiki page for more (OS-specific) instructions: http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building +Copyright and license +--------------------- + +libsigrokdecode is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License +(GPL), version 3 or later. + +The protocol decoders (PDs) included in libsigrokdecode are an integral part +of the shared library (they are not merely external "plugins", they are not +external programs that libsigrokdecode calls via fork/exec, they cannot +function standalone without libsigrokdecode at all, the PDs and the rest of +the libsigrokdecode codebase share data structures and make function calls +to each other). Thus, since the PDs are part of the library, they are also +licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+. + +While some individual source code files are licensed under the GPLv2+, and +some files are licensed under the GPLv3+, this doesn't change the fact that +the library as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+. + +Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders. + + Mailing lists ------------- |