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RE: license question

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:19:27 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Gary Maxwell wrote:

> But libcurl does not include the licenses for open source code bundled with
> libcurl. These cannot be aggregated under libcurl's license. The one example
> that gave me cause for concern, is from security.c. (I assume the "rewrite"
> mentioned in the comments has not occurred.) My understanding is that this
> copyright notice must be included with binary distributions, and failure to
> do so leaves curl/libcurl open to legal action, even if such action is a
> remote possibility.

Those source codes are only used (and thus included in the binary output) when
libcurl is built to use Kerberos4. So your statement above is only true under
this condition, and this is in fact mentioned in the LICENSE-MIXING document
for this reason.

And your assumption is correct, as once the rewrite mentioned in those
comments have been done the licensing of the affected code will change too.

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Received on 2008-03-12