From 151333164ece49fdba3fe5c4bbdc3333cd9ae66d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Levitte Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 12:52:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Change license to the Apache License v2.0 This applies to the 'master' git branch and OpenSSL version 3.0.0 and up. Pre-3.0.0 versions retain the previous license. The boilerplate will change in increments after this change. Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7764) --- CHANGES | 3 + CONTRIBUTING | 2 +- LICENSE | 288 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- README | 9 +- 4 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index ab56f9be1b..49e2597e9e 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0.0 [xx XXX xxxx] + *) Change the license to the Apache License v2.0. + [Richard Levitte] + *) Change the possible version information given with OPENSSL_API_COMPAT. It may be a pre-3.0.0 style numerical version number as it was defined in 1.1.0, and it may also simply take the major version number. diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING index c0eed39e34..639c3cf00e 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING +++ b/CONTRIBUTING @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ guidelines: Copyright 20xx-20yy The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. - Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use + Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 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