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Add OpenSSL license exception also to COPYING
authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Sun, 7 Jun 2020 19:54:49 +0000 (21:54 +0200)
committerWayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>
Mon, 8 Jun 2020 02:46:22 +0000 (19:46 -0700)
Add the OpenSSL license exception also to the COPYING file which
contains the license related information.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
COPYING

diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 94a9ed024d3859793618152ea559a168bbcbb5e2..7e7f6ba8f1888a6c78cdd569ec44f1b91deda5ca 100644 (file)
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -672,3 +672,12 @@ may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
 the library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
 Public License instead of this License.  But first, please read
 <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
+
+REGARDING OPENSSL
+
+In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
+permission to dynamically link rsync with the OpenSSL and xxhash
+libraries when those libraries are being distributed in compliance
+with their license terms, and to distribute a dynamically linked
+combination of rsync and these libraries.  This is also considered
+to be covered under the GPL's System Libraries exception.