From: Ian Jackson Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:51:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: add legal information including clear copyright grant X-Git-Tag: subdirmk/0.1~56 X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?p=subdirmk.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4600f153eecffecde0f8cf81cc8a56da2db3ba3c add legal information including clear copyright grant Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- diff --git a/subdirmk/README b/subdirmk/README index e6da9ee..d2b3c46 100644 --- a/subdirmk/README +++ b/subdirmk/README @@ -238,3 +238,40 @@ project) are best avoided. If you name your variables in ALL CAPS and your subdirectories in lower case with `-' rather than `_', there will be no confusion. + + +Legal information +----------------- + +subdirmk is + Copyright 2019 Mark Wooding + Copyright 2019 Ian Jackson + + subdirmk and its example is free software; you can redistribute it + and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public + License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either + version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. + + This 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 + Library General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public + License along with this library as the file LGPL-2. + If not, see https://www.gnu.org/. + +Individual files generally contain the following tag in the copyright +notice, instead of the full licence grant text: + SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0-or-later +As is conventional, this should be read as a licence grant. + +Contributions are accepted based on the git commit Signed-off-by +convention, by which the contributors' certify their contributions +according to the Developer Certificate of Origin version 1.1 - see +the file DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE. + +Where subdirmk is used by and incorporated into another project (eg +via git subtree), the directory subdirmk/ is under GNU LGPL-2.0+, and +the rest of the project are under that other project's licence(s). +(The project's overall licence must be compatible with LGPL-2.0+.)