This package was debianized by Aurelien Jarno on Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:09:27 +0200. It was downloaded from http://zziplib.sourceforge.net Upstream Author: Guido Draheim Copyright: Copyright (c) 1999,2000,2001,2002,2003 Guido Draheim License: THE ZZIP LICENSE All rights on the project sources are reserved. use freely under the restrictions of the Lesser GNU General Public License or the exceptions described in the following sections that offer additional rules foremost for static linking of the library into other software parts. * LGPL clarifications The project material has not been cross licensed with the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and it will not do at any point. The FSF has written the original Lesser GNU General Public License (LGPL) which is the main opensource license used by this project. The FSF has no copyright on the sources. All rights to the project sources are reserved and the copyright holders are entitled to negotiate other licenses with interested parties. The LGPL is used as the General Public License that can be used without any special license agreement with the copyright holders. The license holders feel that sometimes the LGPL is a bit too restrictive but nonetheless good to protect the freedom of this software. Feel free to contact us on any special permission you need for your opensource project or some form of commercial software. In general, special license agreements will only be made if they benefit the creation of free software including donations to projects and non-profit organization promoting free software (from which one can generally get a tax reduction offer). Regarding example programs you will find a notice in the source header that they are not under LGPL but the ZLIB license to allow you to derive your own programs freely from these source code parts. * additional static linking 1) Static Linking Exception The LGPL describes ways to combine the project sources with other work not under the same license - the programmers do generally call it linking and separate it by their link time into dynamic linking and static linking. The LGPL ensures that the final recipient of a combined work can relink a combined work, including a rule in section 6 to allow shipping of static linked program binaries. The rules in section 6 of the LGPL are often inconvenient and not useful to promote and protect the opensource character of this project. The recepient relinking freedom can be dropped as an extension to the LGPL rules, provided the following rules apply. Note that these rules only apply to static linking and as an extension to section 6 and do not touch any other part of the LGPL. 2) OSI-approved Opensource Projects You may static link with any opensource project material which is under an OSI-approved license. (general-opensource). You may static link with any project material under a license derived from an OSI-approved license by removing restrictions including the removal of restrictions under certain explicit conditions that can be fulfilled by all possible licensees in a way that the license can be possibly OSI-approved later on. (opensource-like). A project that applies to these rules can even ship with modified sources of the project provided that the modifications are still under LGPL and these exceptions. (merge-back-acceptance). This rule is made under the assumption that relinking is not required if the combined work can be derived from their pristine sources made available to the final recipient. (i-am-no-lawyer). 3) Published And Supported Derivative Work Any software, including commercial applications, may static link with a modified derivate of this project when ALL of the following conditions are met which are extracted from the Mozilla Public License 1.0, and called section 3.2 and 3.3. over there - these will require you to redistribute the modified sources. You may not offer or impose any terms on any Source Code version that alters or restricts the applicable version of this License or the recipients' rights hereunder. 3.2. Availability of Source Code. Any Modification which You create or to which You contribute must be made available in Source Code form under the terms of this License either on the same media as an Executable version or via an accepted Electronic Distribution Mechanism to anyone to whom you made an Executable version available; and if made available via Electronic Distribution Mechanism, must remain available for at least twelve (12) months after the date it initially became available, or at least six (6) months after a subsequent version of that particular Modification has been made available to such recipients. You are responsible for ensuring that the Source Code version remains available even if the Electronic Distribution Mechanism is maintained by a third party. 3.3. Description of Modifications. You must cause all Covered Code to which you contribute to contain a file documenting the changes You made to create that Covered Code and the date of any change. You must include a prominent statement that the Modification is derived, directly or indirectly, from Original Code provided by the Initial Developer and including the name of the Initial Developer in (a) the Source Code, and (b) in any notice in an Executable version or related documentation in which You describe the origin or ownership of the Covered Code. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Library General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2'