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diff --git a/docs/LICENSE-MIXING b/docs/LICENSE-MIXING index 3db1a3d7..ccb6ada3 100644 --- a/docs/LICENSE-MIXING +++ b/docs/LICENSE-MIXING @@ -21,33 +21,31 @@ announcement clause that collides with GPL. libcurl http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html Uses an MIT (or Modified BSD)-style license that is as liberal as - possible. Some of the source files that deal with KRB4 have Original - BSD-style announce-clause licenses. You may not distribute binaries - with krb4-enabled libcurl that also link with GPL-licensed code! + possible. -OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html +OpenSSL https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html (May be used for SSL/TLS support) Uses an Original BSD-style license with an announcement clause that makes it "incompatible" with GPL. You are not allowed to ship binaries that link with OpenSSL that includes GPL code (unless that specific GPL code includes an exception for OpenSSL - a habit that is growing more and more common). If OpenSSL's - licensing is a problem for you, consider using GnuTLS or yassl - instead. + licensing is a problem for you, consider using another TLS library. GnuTLS http://www.gnutls.org/ (May be used for SSL/TLS support) Uses the LGPL[3] license. If this is - a problem for you, consider using OpenSSL instead. Also note that + a problem for you, consider using another TLS library. Also note that GnuTLS itself depends on and uses other libs (libgcrypt and libgpg-error) and they too are LGPL- or GPL-licensed. -yassl http://www.yassl.com/ +WolfSSL https://www.wolfssl.com/ - (May be used for SSL/TLS support) Uses the GPL[1] license. If this is - a problem for you, consider using OpenSSL or GnuTLS instead. + (May be used for SSL/TLS support) Uses the GPL[1] license or a + propietary license. If this is a problem for you, consider using + another TLS library. -NSS http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ +NSS https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS (May be used for SSL/TLS support) Is covered by the MPL[4] license, the GPL[1] license and the LGPL[3] license. You may choose to license @@ -55,47 +53,53 @@ NSS http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ grant you different permissions and impose different obligations. You should select the license that best meets your needs. +axTLS http://axtls.sourceforge.net/ + + (May be used for SSL/TLS support) Uses a Modified BSD-style license. + +mbedTLS https://tls.mbed.org/ + + (May be used for SSL/TLS support) Uses the GPL[1] license or a + propietary license. If this is a problem for you, consider using + another TLS library. + +BoringSSL https://boringssl.googlesource.com/ + + (May be used for SSL/TLS support) As an OpenSSL fork, it has the same + license as that. + +libressl http://www.libressl.org/ + + (May be used for SSL/TLS support) As an OpenSSL fork, it has the same + license as that. + c-ares http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/license.html (Used for asynchronous name resolves) Uses an MIT license that is very liberal and imposes no restrictions on any other library or part you may link with. -zlib http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html +zlib http://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html (Used for compressed Transfer-Encoding support) Uses an MIT-style license that shouldn't collide with any other library. -krb4 - - While nothing in particular says that a Kerberos4 library must use any - particular license, the one I've tried and used successfully so far - (kth-krb4) is partly Original BSD-licensed with the announcement - clause. Some of the code in libcurl that is written to deal with - Kerberos4 is Modified BSD-licensed. - MIT Kerberos http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dist/ (May be used for GSS support) MIT licensed, that shouldn't collide with any other parts. -Heimdal http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/ +Heimdal http://www.h5l.org (May be used for GSS support) Heimdal is Original BSD licensed with the announcement clause. -GNU GSS http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/ +GNU GSS https://www.gnu.org/software/gss/ (May be used for GSS support) GNU GSS is GPL licensed. Note that you may not distribute binary curl packages that uses this if you build curl to also link and use any Original BSD licensed libraries! -fbopenssl - - (Used for SPNEGO support) Unclear license. Based on its name, I assume - that it uses the OpenSSL license and thus shares the same issues as - described for OpenSSL above. - libidn http://josefsson.org/libidn/ (Used for IDNA support) Uses the GNU Lesser General Public @@ -117,10 +121,10 @@ libssh2 http://www.libssh2.org/ (Used for scp and sftp support) libssh2 uses a Modified BSD-style license. -[1] = GPL - GNU General Public License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html -[2] = http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs details on +[1] = GPL - GNU General Public License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html +[2] = https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs details on how to write such an exception to the GPL [3] = LGPL - GNU Lesser General Public License: - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html + https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html [4] = MPL - Mozilla Public License: - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ + https://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ |