[or-cvs] r13010: Update the Tor license. Include the other licenses that some (website/trunk/eff/en)

phobos at seul.org phobos at seul.org
Tue Jan 1 02:35:02 UTC 2008


Author: phobos
Date: 2007-12-31 21:35:02 -0500 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007)
New Revision: 13010

Modified:
   website/trunk/eff/en/tor-legal-faq.wml
Log:
Update the Tor license.  Include the other licenses that sometimes are
included with Tor bundles and packages.


Modified: website/trunk/eff/en/tor-legal-faq.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/eff/en/tor-legal-faq.wml	2007-12-31 21:12:16 UTC (rev 13009)
+++ website/trunk/eff/en/tor-legal-faq.wml	2008-01-01 02:35:02 UTC (rev 13010)
@@ -181,15 +181,21 @@
 <h3><a class="anchor" href="#License">Is the Tor software subject to
 any license terms?</a></h3>
 
-<p><strong>Yes.</strong> The Tor license is included in the software
-download and reproduced below. (However, note that the Tor download
-bundles include other software too, such as Vidalia and Privoxy, and if
-you use the bundles you will need to follow the licenses for all the
-programs they include as well.)</p>
+<p><strong>Yes.</strong> The Tor software is distributed under the
+Modified BSD license, and is reproduced below.  The Vidalia software is distributed under
+the GPL v2.  Privoxy is distributed under the GPL v2.  
+"src/common/strlcat.c and src/common/strlcpy.c" by Todd C. Miller are
+licensed under the Modified BSD license. </p>
 
-<p>Copyright (c) 2001-2004, Roger Dingledine<br />
-Copyright (c) 2004-2007, Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson</p>
+<p>If you have Tor as a static binary with OpenSSL included, then you
+should know: "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
+ for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)"</p>
 
+<p>The Tor software license is the Modified BSD, which is as follows:</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy 2001-2004, Roger Dingledine<br />
+Copyright &copy 2004-2007, Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson<br />
+Copyright &copy 2007 The Tor Project, Inc.</p>
+
 <p>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
 met:</p>



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