[Help-gnutls] Re: License Info for Example Code

[Simon Josefsson]

"Cort, Tom" <Tom.Cort at state.vt.us> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for replying so quickly.
>
>> You can assume this license:
>> /* Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation
>>  *
>>  * Copying and distribution of this file, with or without
> modification,
>>  * are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
>>  * notice and this notice are preserved.
>>  */
>
> Is that license compatible with "GPLv3 or later" (i.e. can I copy and
> paste the examples into my GPLv3 or later software without violating
> either license provided I include the notice above)? How should the
> copyright header in my program look? Is this okay...

Since this is a general problem we have asked licensing at gnu.org to help
us with the licensing.

Generally, our intention is that the example programs should be possible
to use everywhere without limitation.

Thanks,
Simon

> /*
>  * libfoo - bar bar bar.
>  * Copyright (C) 2007  Vermont Department of Taxes
>  *
>  * This program 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.
>  *
>  * This program 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 this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>  *
>  * ---
>  *
>  * GNU TLS Examples - ex-session-info.c, ex-rfc2818.c, ex-client2.c
>  * Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation
>  *
>  * Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
>  * are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
>  * notice and this notice are preserved.
>  */
>
> --
> Tom Cort
> Systems Developer
> Vermont Department of Taxes