Merge branch 'dev' of https://github.com/miketout/veruscoin into dev

[VerusCoin.git] / COPYING

diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index c84bfb7aa28420c4a0bc4a69dc961801f22771e7..26e66cf0b6ed87c77acc21949c0282b246d624ab 100644 (file)
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
-Copyright (c) 2016-2017 The Zcash developers
 Copyright (c) 2009-2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
+Copyright (c) 2009-2018 Bitcoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2016-2017 The Zcash developers
+Copyright (c) 2016-2018 The Komodo developers
+Copyright (c) 2018 The VerusCoin developers
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -20,10 +23,12 @@ OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
 THE SOFTWARE.
 
 
-The MIT software license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
-above applies to the code directly included in this source distribution.
-Dependencies downloaded as part of the build process may be covered by other
-open-source licenses. For further details see 'contrib/debian/copyright'.
+The MIT software license (https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
+above applies to the code directly included in this source distribution, with
+the exception of certain Autoconf macros. Dependencies downloaded as part of
+the build process may be covered by other open-source licenses. The MIT-licensed
+source code is not considered a derived work of these Autoconf macros or of the
+dependencies. For further details see 'contrib/debian/copyright'.
 
 
 This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the
@@ -31,7 +36,20 @@ OpenSSL Toolkit (https://www.openssl.org/). This product includes cryptographic
 software written by Eric Young ([email protected]).
 
 
-Although almost all of the Zcash code is licensed under "permissive" open source
+Although almost all of the Zcash/Komodo/VerusCoin code is licensed under "permissive" open source
 licenses, users and distributors should note that when built using the default
 build options, Zcash depends on Oracle Berkeley DB 6.2.x, which is licensed
 under the GNU Affero General Public License.
+
+
+Contributors should understand licensing implications before modifying the
+following files in build-aux/m4 (see https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/2827):
+
+ * ax_check_compile_flag.m4
+ * ax_check_link_flag.m4
+ * ax_check_preproc_flag.m4
+ * ax_compiler_vendor.m4
+ * ax_gcc_archflag.m4
+ * ax_gcc_x86_cpuid.m4
+ * ax_openmp.m4
+ * ax_pthread.m4