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Upstream-Name: XZ Utils
Upstream-Contact:
Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
https://tukaani.org/xz/lists.html
Source:
https://tukaani.org/xz
https://git.tukaani.org/xz.git
Comment:
XZ Utils is developed and maintained upstream by Lasse Collin. Major
portions are based on code by other authors; see AUTHORS for details.
Most of the source has been put into the public domain, but some files
have not (details below).
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This file describes the source package. The binary packages contain
some files derived from other works: for example, images in the API
documentation come from Doxygen.
License:
Different licenses apply to different files in this package. Here
is a rough summary of which licenses apply to which parts of this
package (but check the individual files to be sure!):
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- liblzma is in the public domain.
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- xz, xzdec, and lzmadec command line tools are in the public
domain unless GNU getopt_long had to be compiled and linked
in from the lib directory. The getopt_long code is under
GNU LGPLv2.1+.
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- The scripts to grep, diff, and view compressed files have been
adapted from gzip. These scripts and their documentation are
under GNU GPLv2+.
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- All the documentation in the doc directory and most of the
XZ Utils specific documentation files in other directories
are in the public domain.
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- Translated messages are in the public domain.
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- The build system contains public domain files, and files that
are under GNU GPLv2+ or GNU GPLv3+. None of these files end up
in the binaries being built.
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- Test files and test code in the tests directory, and debugging
utilities in the debug directory are in the public domain.
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- The extra directory may contain public domain files, and files
that are under various free software licenses.
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You can do whatever you want with the files that have been put into
the public domain. If you find public domain legally problematic,
take the previous sentence as a license grant. If you still find
the lack of copyright legally problematic, you have too many
lawyers.
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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 (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:
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This software includes code from XZ Utils <http://tukaani.org/xz/>.
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The following license texts are included in the following files:
- COPYING.LGPLv2.1: GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1
- COPYING.GPLv2: GNU General Public License version 2
- COPYING.GPLv3: GNU General Public License version 3
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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 the XZ Utils source
package.
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If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask the author(s) for more
information.
Files: *
Copyright: 2006-2018, Lasse Collin
1999-2008, Igor Pavlov
2006, Ville Koskinen
1998, Steve Reid
2000, Wei Dai
2003, Kevin Springle
2009, Jonathan Nieder
2010, Anders F Björklund
License: PD
This file has been put in the public domain.
You can do whatever you want with this file.
Comment:
From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: XZ utils for Debian
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:28:23 +0300
Message-Id: <200907191328.23816.lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
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[...]
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> AUTHORS, ChangeLog, COPYING, README, THANKS, TODO,
> dos/README, windows/README
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COPYING says that most docs are in the public domain. Maybe that's not
clear enough, but on the other hand it looks a bit stupid to put
copyright information in tiny and relatively small docs like README.
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I don't dare to say that _all_ XZ Utils specific docs are in the public
domain unless otherwise mentioned in the file. I'm including PDF files
generated by groff + ps2pdf, and some day I might include Doxygen-
generated HTML docs too. Those don't include any copyright notices, but
it seems likely that groff + ps2pdf or at least Doxygen put some
copyrighted content into the generated files.
Files: INSTALL NEWS PACKAGERS
windows/README-Windows.txt
windows/INSTALL-MinGW.txt
Copyright: 2009-2010, Lasse Collin
License: probably-PD
See the note on AUTHORS, README, and so on above.
Files: src/scripts/* lib/* extra/scanlzma/scanlzma.c
Copyright: © 1993, Jean-loup Gailly
© 1989-1994, 1996-1999, 2001-2007, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
© 2006 Timo Lindfors
2005, Charles Levert
2005, 2009, Lasse Collin
2009, Andrew Dudman
Other-Authors: Paul Eggert, Ulrich Drepper
License: GPL-2+
Files: src/scripts/Makefile.am src/scripts/xzless.1
Copyright: 2009, Andrew Dudman
2009, Lasse Collin
License: PD
This file has been put in the public domain.
You can do whatever you want with this file.
Files: doc/examples/xz_pipe_comp.c doc/examples/xz_pipe_decomp.c
Copyright: 2010, Daniel Mealha Cabrita
License: PD
Not copyrighted -- provided to the public domain.
Files: lib/getopt.c lib/getopt1.c lib/getopt.in.h
Copyright: © 1987-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Other-Authors: Ulrich Drepper
License: LGPL-2.1+
Files: m4/getopt.m4 m4/posix-shell.m4
Copyright: © 2002-2006, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
© 2007-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Other-Authors: Bruno Haible, Paul Eggert
License: permissive-fsf
Files: m4/acx_pthread.m4
Copyright: © 2008, Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
License: Autoconf
files: m4/ax_check_capsicum.m4
Copyright: © 2014, Google Inc.
© 2015, Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
License: permissive-nowarranty
Files: Doxyfile.in
Copyright: © 1997-2007 by Dimitri van Heesch
Origin: Doxygen 1.4.7
License: GPL-2
Files: src/liblzma/check/crc32_table_?e.h
src/liblzma/check/crc64_table_?e.h
src/liblzma/lzma/fastpos_table.c
src/liblzma/rangecoder/price_table.c
Copyright: none, automatically generated data
Generated-With:
src/liblzma/check/crc32_tablegen.c
src/liblzma/check/crc64_tablegen.c
src/liblzma/lzma/fastpos_tablegen.c
src/liblzma/rangecoder/price_tablegen.c
License: none
No copyright to license.
Files: .gitignore m4/.gitignore po/.gitignore po/LINGUAS po/POTFILES.in
Copyright: none; these are just short lists.
License: none
No copyright to license.
Files: tests/compress_prepared_bcj_*
Copyright: 2008-2009, Lasse Collin
Source-Code: tests/bcj_test.c
License: PD
This file has been put into the public domain.
You can do whatever you want with this file.
Comment:
changelog.gz (commit 975d8fd) explains:
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Recreated the BCJ test files for x86 and SPARC. The old files
were linked with crt*.o, which are copyrighted, and thus the
old test files were not in the public domain as a whole. They
are freely distributable though, but it is better to be careful
and avoid including any copyrighted pieces in the test files.
The new files are just compiled and assembled object files,
and thus don't contain any copyrighted code.
Files: po/cs.po po/de.po po/fr.po
Copyright: 2010, Marek Černocký
2010, Andre Noll
2011, Adrien Nader
License: PD
This file is put in the public domain.
Files: po/it.po po/pl.po
Copyright: 2009, 2010, Gruppo traduzione italiano di Ubuntu-it
2010, Lorenzo De Liso
2009, 2010, 2011, Milo Casagrande
2011, Jakub Bogusz
License: PD
This file is in the public domain
Files: INSTALL.generic
Copyright: © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: permissive-nowarranty
Files: dos/config.h
Copyright: © 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2007-2010, Lasse Collin
Other-Authors: Roland McGrath, Akim Demaille, Paul Eggert,
David Mackenzie, Bruno Haible, and many others.
Origin: configure.ac from XZ Utils,
visibility.m4 serial 1 (gettext-0.15),
Autoconf 2.52g
License: config-h
configure.ac:
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# Author: Lasse Collin
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# This file has been put into the public domain.
# You can do whatever you want with this file.
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dnl Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
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dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
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dnl From Bruno Haible.
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