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| author | Miquel Sabaté Solà <mikisabate@gmail.com> | 2024-12-20 16:09:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Miquel Sabaté Solà <mikisabate@gmail.com> | 2024-12-20 16:09:05 +0100 |
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Dual license the source code under this repository
This means that the source code under `crates/` is under the GNU
GPLv3 (or any later version), and that source code under `lib/` is under
the GNU LGPLv3 (or any later version).
In practice this relaxes a bit the previous licensing because before it
was all GNU GPLv3 (or any later version). For people compiling a binary
with these libraries then this would've been spilling over the GPLv3 on
their binaries as well, which might not be desired. Instead, for the
libraries abide by the LGPLv3 (or any later version), which has the same
guarantees when it comes to free/lliure software for this specific case,
but at least we don't force the GPLv3 (or any later version) onto users.
That being said, users of these libraries still need to provide object
files so third parties could theoretically recompile those binaries
under a modified library.
Signed-off-by: Miquel Sabaté Solà <mikisabate@gmail.com>
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@@ -43,3 +43,19 @@ The `readrom` reads a given ROM file and shows all the information that can be gathered from it. For now this only applies to information on the header, but in the future we might want to add disassembling user-specified segments, for example. + +## License + +This repository holds two licenses, as you can also note on the `Cargo.toml` +file. As it's written there: + +- The source code on the `crates/` directory is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 (or + any later version). +- The source code on the `lib/` directory is licensed under the GNU LGPLv3 (or + any later version). + +In practice, for the libraries under `lib/` this means that if you plan to +compile your binary statically, you still need to abide by the LGPLv3+ license. +This means at least providing the object files necessary to allow someone to +recompile your program using a modified version of these libraries. See the +LGPLv3 license for more details. |