@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ XZ Utils Licensing
4040 free software licenses. These aren't built or installed as
4141 part of XZ Utils.
4242
43+ The following command may be helpful in finding per-file license
44+ information. It works on xz.git and on a clean file tree extracted
45+ from a release tarball.
46+
47+ sh build-aux/license-check.sh -v
48+
4349 For the files under the BSD Zero Clause License (0BSD), if
4450 a copyright notice is needed, the following is sufficient:
4551
@@ -59,25 +65,6 @@ XZ Utils Licensing
5965 - COPYING.GPLv2: GNU General Public License version 2
6066 - COPYING.GPLv3: GNU General Public License version 3
6167
62- A note about old XZ Utils releases:
63-
64- XZ Utils releases 5.4.6 and older and 5.5.1alpha have a
65- significant amount of code put into the public domain and
66- that obviously remains so. The switch from public domain to
67- 0BSD for newer releases was made in Febrary 2024 because
68- public domain has (real or perceived) legal ambiguities in
69- some jurisdictions.
70-
71- There is very little *practical* difference between public
72- domain and 0BSD. The main difference likely is that one
73- shouldn't claim that 0BSD-licensed code is in the public
74- domain; 0BSD-licensed code is copyrighted but available under
75- an extremely permissive license. Neither 0BSD nor public domain
76- require retaining or reproducing author, copyright holder, or
77- license notices when distributing the software. (Compare to,
78- for example, BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License which does have
79- such requirements.)
80-
8168 If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask for more information.
8269 The contact information is in the README file.
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