# Licensing

The GnuTLS distribution consists of the main libraries (libgnutls and
libdane, located in the lib/ and libdane/ directories), gnutls-openssl
extra library (in the extra/ directory), applications (in the src/
directory), tests (in the tests/ directory) and documentation.

Since GnuTLS version 3.1.10, the main libraries are released under the
GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later (LGPLv2+, see
COPYING.LESSERv2 for the license terms), while the others are under
the GNU General Public License version 3 or later (GPLv3+, see COPYING
for the license terms), unless otherwise specified in the indivual
source files.

The documentation in the doc/ directory is under the GNU Free
Documentation License version 1.3 or later (GFDLv1.3+).


Note, however, that the nettle and the gmp libraries which are GnuTLS
dependencies, are distributed under a LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+ dual
license. As such binaries linking to them need to adhere to either
LGPLv3+ or the GPLv2+ license.

For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.