This package was debianized by Ivo Timmermans <[email protected]> on
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:00:42 +0200.
It was later taken over by Matthias Urlichs <[email protected]> and is now
maintained by Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> Eric Dorland
<[email protected]>, James Westby <[email protected]>


It was downloaded from ftp://gnutls.hellug.gr/pub/gnutls

Upstream Authors:
Nikos Mavroyanopoulos <[email protected]>
Fabio Fiorina <[email protected]>
Simon Josefsson <[email protected]>
Timo Schulz <[email protected]>
Andrew McDonald <[email protected]>
Ludovic Courtes <[email protected]>
Mario Lenz <[email protected]>
Howard Chu <[email protected]>
Ivo Timmermans <[email protected]>
Stefan Walter <[email protected]>
Yoshisato YANAGISAWA <[email protected]>
Emile Van Bergen <[email protected]>
Joe Orton <[email protected]>
Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>
David Marín Carreño <[email protected]>
Daiki Ueno <[email protected]>
Brad Hards <[email protected]>
Boyan Kasarov <[email protected]>
Steve Dispensa <[email protected]>
Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault <[email protected]>


License: The main library is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) version 2.1+, Gnutls Extra (i.e. openssl wrapper library,
and library for code for "GnuTLS Inner Application" support) build system,
testsuite and commandline utilities are licenced under the GNU General
Public License version 3+. The Guile bindings use the same license as the
respective underlying library, i.e. LGPLv2.1+ for the main library and
GPLv3+ for Gnutls extra.

Copyright:
--------------------
* Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
* 2010 Free Software Foundation
*
* Author: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
*
* This file is part of GNUTLS.
*
* The GNUTLS library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
* the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
* USA
--------------------
/*
* Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free
* Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* Author: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
*
* This file is part of GnuTLS-EXTRA.
*
* GnuTLS-extra is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* GnuTLS-extra is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with GnuTLS-EXTRA; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
* 02110-1301, USA.
--------------------

The documentation is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free
Documentation License (FDL):
--------------------
Copyright @copyright{} 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A
copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free
Documentation License''.
@end quotation
--------------------

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the latest version of the GNU
Lesser General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'
v2.1 of the license in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1'; the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. The GNU Free
Documentation License is available under /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.3.



Excerpt from upstream's README:
LICENSE ISSUES
--------------

Since the 0.4.2 version the gnutls library is covered under the GNU
Lesser GPL. Previously released versions were licensed under the GNU
GPL.

We changed the license for most of GNUTLS because other free libraries
already exist that do the same jobs and have lax licenses. We want
GNUTLS to be usable in all the same places as those other libraries.
We kept some parts of GNUTLS under the GPL because they are unique,
and with the GPL they provide free software projects (which deserve
our help) an advantage over non-free projects (which do not deserve
our help, since they refuse to share with us). For more explanation,
see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html.

The GNU Lesser GPL license applies to the main gnutls library, while
the gnutls-extra library is under the GPL. The gnutls-extra library
contains the code for "GnuTLS Inner Application" support and the
OpenSSL compatibility layer. The gnutls library is located in the
lib/ directory, while the gnutls-extra library is at libextra/.