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authorTobias Brunner <tobias@strongswan.org>2012-06-29 15:20:23 +0200
committerTobias Brunner <tobias@strongswan.org>2012-06-29 16:51:29 +0200
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-Except for the DES, MD4 and MD5 code this software is under the GNU Public
-License, see the file COPYING.
+Except for code in the blowfish, des, md4 and md5 plugins (see below) the
+following terms apply:
-See the file CREDITS for details on origins of more of the code.
+For copyright information see the headers of individual source files.
-The DES implementation is under a BSD style license, see
-src/libstrongswan/plugins/des/des_crypter.c.
-Note that this software has an advertising clause in it.
+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 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+version.
-The MD4 and MD5 implementations are from RSA Data Security Inc., so this
-package must include the following phrase:
+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>.
+
+Linking strongSwan statically or dynamically with other modules is making a
+combined work based on strongSwan. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU
+General Public License cover the whole combination.
+
+In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders of strongSwan give
+you permission to combine strongSwan with free software programs or libraries
+that are released under the GNU LGPL and with code included in the standard
+release of the OpenSSL project's OpenSSL library under the OpenSSL or SSLeay
+licenses (or modified versions of such code, with unchanged license). You may
+copy and distribute such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL for
+strongSwan and the licenses of the other code concerned, provided that you
+include the source code of that other code when and as the GNU GPL requires
+distribution of source code.
+
+Note that people who make modified versions of strongSwan are not obligated to
+grant this special exception for their modified versions; it is their choice
+whether to do so. The GNU General Public License gives permission to release a
+modified version without this exception; this exception also makes it possible
+to release a modified version which carries forward this exception.
+
+
+The DES implementation in the des plugin and the Blowfish implementation in the
+blowfish plugin are under a BSD style license (see source files for details).
+Note that these parts have an advertising clause in it.
+
+The MD4 and MD5 implementations in the md4 and md5 plugins are from RSA Data
+Security Inc., so this package must include the following phrase:
"derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm".