This package was debianized by Ivo Timmermans on Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:02:38 +0200. It was taken over by Matthias Urlichs , and is now maintained by Andreas Metzler Eric Dorland , James Westby It was downloaded from http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/. Upstream Authors: Werner Koch and others. Copyright: Most of the package is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 (or later), except for helper and debugging binaries. See below for details. The documentation is licensed under the GPLv2 (or later), see below. Excerpt from upstream's README: The library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL); see the file COPYING.LIB for the actual terms. The helper programs (gcryptrnd and getrandom) as well as the documentation are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL); see the file COPYING for teh actual terms. This library used to be available under the GPL - this was changed with version 1.1.7 with the rationale that there are now many free crypto libraries available and many of them come with capabilities similar to Libcrypt. We decided that to foster the use of cryptography in Free Software an LGPLed library would make more sense because it avoids problems due to license incompatibilities between some Free Software licenses and the GPL. Please note that in many cases it is better for a library to be licensed under the GPL, so that it provides an advantage for free software projects. The Lesser GPL is so named because it does less to protect the freedom of the users of the code that it covers. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html for more explanation. An example of the license headers of the LGPL is ------------- Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Libgcrypt. Libgcrypt 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. Libgcrypt 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 program; if not, see . ------------- On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'; The documentation licensed under the GPL ------------- Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @quotation Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The text of the license can be found in the section entitled ``GNU General Public License''. ------------- On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the text of the GNU General Public License, version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.