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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:35:18 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:35:18 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 252.22.upstream/252.22
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diff --git a/LICENSES/README.md b/LICENSES/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d235b31 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSES/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +# systemd Project Licensing + +## Main License + +The systemd project uses single-line references to Unique License Identifiers as +defined by the Linux Foundation's SPDX project (https://spdx.org/). The line in +each individual source file identifies the license applicable to that file. + +The current set of valid, predefined SPDX identifiers can be found on the SPDX +License List at https://spdx.org/licenses/. + +The 'LICENSES/' directory contains all the licenses used by the sources included in +the systemd project source tree. + +Unless otherwise noted, the systemd project sources are licensed under the terms +and conditions of the **GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later**. + +New sources that cannot be distributed under LGPL-2.1-or-later will no longer +be accepted for inclusion in the systemd project to maintain license uniformity. + +## Other Licenses + +The following exceptions apply: + + * some udev sources under src/udev/ are licensed under **GPL-2.0-or-later**, so the + udev binaries as a whole are also distributed under **GPL-2.0-or-later**. + * the header files contained in src/basic/linux/ and src/shared/linux/ are copied + verbatim from the Linux kernel source tree and are licensed under **GPL-2.0 WITH + Linux-syscall-note** and are used within the scope of the Linux-syscall-note + exception provisions + * the src/shared/initreq.h header is licensed under original license, + **LGPL-2.0-or-later**. + * the src/shared/linux/bpf_insn.h header is copied from the Linux kernel + source tree and is licensed under either **BSD-2-Clause** or **GPL-2.0-only**, + and thus is included in the systemd build under the BSD-2-Clause license. + * The src/basic/linux/wireguard.h header is copied from the Linux kernel + source tree and is licensed under either **MIT** or **GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note**, + and thus is included in the systemd build under the MIT license. + * the following sources are licensed under the **MIT** license (in case of our + scripts, to facilitate copying and reuse of those helpers to other projects): + - hwdb.d/parse_hwdb.py + - src/basic/linux/batman_adv.h + - src/basic/sparse-endian.h + - tools/catalog-report.py + * the following sources are licensed under the **CC0-1.0** license: + - src/basic/siphash24.c + - src/basic/siphash24.h + - tools/check-includes.pl + * the following sources are licensed under the **MIT-0** license: + - all examples under man/ + - src/systemctl/systemd-sysv-install.SKELETON + - config files and examples under /network + * the following sources are under **Public Domain** (LicenseRef-murmurhash2-public-domain): + - src/basic/MurmurHash2.c + - src/basic/MurmurHash2.h + * the following sources are under **Public Domain** (LicenseRef-lookup3-public-domain): + - src/libsystemd/sd-journal/lookup3.c + - src/libsystemd/sd-journal/lookup3.h + * the tools/chromiumos/gen_autosuspend_rules.py script is licensed under the + **BSD-3-Clause** license. + * Heebo fonts under docs/fonts/ are licensed under the **SIL Open Font License 1.1**, + * any files under test/ without an explicit license we assume non-copyrightable + (eg: computer-generated fuzzer data) + +## OpenSSL Notes + +Note that building the systemd project with OpenSSL does not affect the libsystemd.so +shared library, which is not linked with the OpenSSL library. |