git » libjio » commit 8b8c9e1

Re-license under the OSL 3.0.

author Alberto Bertogli
2007-07-15 11:28:30 UTC
committer Alberto Bertogli
2007-07-15 13:55:28 UTC
parent 51742931c62f6302f7b9351e12270f5efa3873f9

Re-license under the OSL 3.0.

As I am the sole copyright owner, I'm allowed to upgrade the license to
the new version.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com>

README +1 -1
doc/LICENSE +118 -116

diff --git a/README b/README
index 4883ef9..31c2c92 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ not included in the package for space reasons.
 
 To see how to install it, please read the INSTALL file.
 
-It is licensed under the Open Software License version 2.0.
+It is licensed under the Open Software License version 3.0.
 
 Comments and patches are always welcome; please send them to the mailing list,
 libjio-devel@auriga.wearlab.de.
diff --git a/doc/LICENSE b/doc/LICENSE
index ef6283f..3a91342 100644
--- a/doc/LICENSE
+++ b/doc/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 This project, 'libjio', is copyrighted by Alberto Bertogli and licensed under
-the Open Software License version 2.0 as obtained from www.opensource.org (and
+the Open Software License version 3.0 as obtained from www.opensource.org (and
 included here-in for easy reference) (that license itself is copyrighted by
 Larry Rosen).
 
@@ -10,163 +10,152 @@ program does NOT in itself make that program considered a derivative work of
 this Original Work.
 
 		Alberto Bertogli
-		21 February 2004
+		15 July 2007
 
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