From 3e1a99c0f8c5e9ace4748ff818146a70b9549092 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Uwe Hermann Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:03:03 +0100 Subject: README: Add "Copyright and license" section. --- README | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 705f4eb..5e807ab 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 ------------- -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2