Minor improvements to COPYING.

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Lasse Collin 2009-07-24 11:34:02 +03:00
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the lack of copyright legally problematic, you have too many
lawyers.
As usual, this software is provided "as is", without any warranty.
If you copy significant amounts of public domain code from XZ Utils
into your project, acknowledging this somewhere in your software is
polite, but naturally it is not legally required.
polite (especially if it is proprietary, non-free software), but
naturally it is not legally required. Here is an example of a good
notice to put into "about box" or into documentation:
As usual, this software is provided "as is", without any warranty.
This software includes code from XZ Utils <http://tukaani.org/xz/>.
The following license texts are included in the following files:
- COPYING.LGPLv2.1: GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1
@ -53,7 +57,8 @@ XZ Utils Licensing
Note that the toolchain (compiler, linker etc.) may add some code
pieces that are copyrighted. Thus, it is possible that e.g. liblzma
binary wouldn't actually be in the public domain in its entirety
even though it contains no copyrighted code from this package.
even though it contains no copyrighted code from the XZ Utils source
package.
If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask the author(s) for more
information.