This package was debianized by Ivo Timmermans on Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:00:42 +0200. It is now maintained by Matthias Urlichs . It was downloaded from ftp://gnutls.hellug.gr/pub/gnutls Upstream Authors: Nikos Mavroyanopoulos Fabio Fiorina Copyright: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1, except some parts. See the file README in the package gnutls0.4-doc, or the excerpt below for details. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'; the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. The documentation is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL): Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". Excerpt from /usr/share/doc/gnutls0.4-doc/README (in the package gnutls0.4-doc): LICENSE ISSUES: Since the 0.4.2 version the gnutls library is covered under the GNU Lesser GPL. Previously released versions were licensed under the GNU GPL. We changed the license for most of GNUTLS because other free libraries already exist that do the same jobs and have lax licenses. We want GNUTLS to be usable in all the same places as those other libraries. We kept some parts of GNUTLS under the GPL because they are unique, and with the GPL they provide free software projects (which deserve our help) an advantage over non-free projects (which do not deserve our help, since they refuse to share with us). For more explanation, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html. The GNU Lesser GPL license applies to the main gnutls library, while the gnutls-extra library is under the GPL. The gnutls-extra library contains the "SRP authentication" source code, and code for the "Openpgp key" support. The gnutls library is located in the lib/ directory, while the gnutls-extra library is at libextra/.