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Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +01001Libwebsockets and included programs are provided under the terms of the
2MIT license shown below, with the exception that some sources are under
3a similar permissive license like BSD, or are explicitly CC0 / public
4domain to remove any obstacles from basing differently-licensed code on
5them.
Andy Greenc11b5872013-02-07 23:44:21 +08006
Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +01007Original liberal license retained:
Andy Greend12b3df2017-05-19 09:25:54 +08008
Andy Greenc591e1a2019-09-19 06:54:53 +01009 - lib/misc/sha-1.c - 3-clause BSD license retained, link to original
10 - win32port/zlib - ZLIB license (see zlib.h)
11 - lib/tls/mbedtls/wrapper - Apache 2.0 (only built if linked against mbedtls)
12 - lib/misc/base64-decode.c - already MIT
Andy Green083c73e2016-02-08 08:44:21 +080013
Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +010014Relicensed to MIT:
Andy Green083c73e2016-02-08 08:44:21 +080015
Andy Greenc591e1a2019-09-19 06:54:53 +010016 - lib/misc/daemonize.c - relicensed from Public Domain to MIT,
17 link to original Public Domain version
18 - lib/plat/windows/windows-resolv.c - relicensed from "Beerware v42" to MIT
Andy Green083c73e2016-02-08 08:44:21 +080019
Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +010020Public Domain (CC-zero) to simplify reuse:
Andy Green083c73e2016-02-08 08:44:21 +080021
Andy Green4f267c52017-09-22 09:46:58 +080022 - test-apps/*.c
23 - test-apps/*.h
Andy Green1f6cbbe2018-05-07 11:27:50 +080024 - minimal-examples/*
Andy Green0c984012016-09-19 19:16:47 +080025 - lwsws/*
Andy Greend12b3df2017-05-19 09:25:54 +080026
Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +010027Although libwebsockets is available under a permissive license, it does not
28change the reality of dealing with large lumps of external code... if your
29copy diverges it is guaranteed to contain security problems after a while
30and can be very painful to pick backports (especially since historically,
31we are very hot on cleaning and refactoring the codebase). The least
32painful and lowest risk way remains sending your changes and fixes upstream
33to us so you can easily use later releases and fixes.
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Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +010035MIT License applied to libwebsockets:
Andy Green75020012013-02-07 23:43:56 +080036
Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +010037https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
Andy Green75020012013-02-07 23:43:56 +080038
Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +010039 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
40 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
41 deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
42 rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
43 sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
44 furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
Andy Green75020012013-02-07 23:43:56 +080045
Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +010046 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
47 all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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Andy Green26319662019-08-14 10:44:14 +010049 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
50 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
51 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
52 AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
53 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
54 FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
55 IN THE SOFTWARE.
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