From 86b671eae08893300da732e23210061fde875351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daira Hopwood Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:18:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix licensing to comply with OpenSSL and Berkeley DB licenses. Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood --- COPYING | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 943b31921..3043e4463 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -18,3 +18,34 @@ AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. + + +The MIT software license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) +above applies to the code directly included in this source distribution, with +the exception of certain files under the 'src/qt/' and 'scripts/img/' directories +which are distributed under the LGPL or GPL licenses. Dependencies downloaded +as part of the build process may be covered by other open source licenses. +For further details see 'contrib/DEBIAN/copyright'. + + +This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the +[OpenSSL Toolkit](https://www.openssl.org/). This product includes cryptographic +software written by Eric Young ([eay@cryptsoft.com](mailto:eay@cryptsoft.com)), +and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard. + + +Although almost all of the Zcash code is licensed under "permissive" open source +licenses, users and distributors should note that when built using the default +build options, Zcash depends on Oracle Berkeley DB, which includes the following +license clause: + + Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on + how to obtain complete source code for the DB software and any + accompanying software that uses the DB software. The source code + must either be included in the distribution or be available for no + more than the cost of distribution plus a nominal fee, and must be + freely redistributable under reasonable conditions. For an + executable file, complete source code means the source code for all + modules it contains. It does not include source code for modules or + files that typically accompany the major components of the operating + system on which the executable file runs.