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* Dropbear is released under an [http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html MIT-style License].
 
* Dropbear is released under an [http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html MIT-style License].
 
* Shorewall is released under the [http://www.shorewall.net/Introduction.html#License GPLv2 License].
 
* Shorewall is released under the [http://www.shorewall.net/Introduction.html#License GPLv2 License].
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* OpenLDAP is released under the [http://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html OpenLDAP Public License].
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** The text of this license includes the following statement:
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:: 3. Redistributions must contain a verbatim copy of this document.
  
 
In some cases the upstream software has been modified for [[LEAF]], e.g. by applying a source code patch. In such cases the modified software is a "derived work" and is licensed under the same terms as the original upstream software.
 
In some cases the upstream software has been modified for [[LEAF]], e.g. by applying a source code patch. In such cases the modified software is a "derived work" and is licensed under the same terms as the original upstream software.

Latest revision as of 12:09, 11 June 2011

Documentation License

As stated on the Main Page, the content of this Wiki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.


Software License

Each LEAF release is a Linux distribution consisting of a wide range of software taken from a variety of upstream projects, plus a small amount of "LEAF-specific" software which has been created just for LEAF. Some of the LEAF-specific software is only used for the development of a LEAF release - for example buildtool.pl and buildimage.pl - and is not normally distributed, although it is freely available. Other LEAF-specific software (notably apkg) is included in the published LEAF Images.

The upstream project software is released under a variety of Free and Open Source Software licenses, depending on which license the copyright holders chose to use. For example:

3. Redistributions must contain a verbatim copy of this document.

In some cases the upstream software has been modified for LEAF, e.g. by applying a source code patch. In such cases the modified software is a "derived work" and is licensed under the same terms as the original upstream software.


TODO: Say more about how the different upstream software projects are "aggregated" into a LEAF release, and which license applies to the "aggregate".