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@@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ The following components exist: - `libcompat.a` built from files in `lib/compat` contains minimal implementations of POSIX or GNU functions that are not available on some platforms. + - `libutil.a` contains common utilities that are used internally by both the + programs and `libsquashfs.so`. Optionally, `libsquashfs` can be compiled with builtin, custom versions of zlib and lz4. The configure options `--with-builtin-zlib` and `--with-builtin-lz4` @@ -149,8 +151,8 @@ The `tests` sub-directory contains unit tests for the libraries. The `extras` sub-directory contains a few demo programs that use `libsquashfs`. To allow 3rd party applications to use `libsquashfs.so` without restricting -their choice of license, the code in the `lib/sqfs` sub-directories is -licensed under the LGPLv3, in contrast to the rest of this package. +their choice of license, the code in the `lib/sqfs` and `lib/util` directories +is licensed under the LGPLv3, in contrast to the rest of this package. ## A Note on LZO Support @@ -180,4 +182,10 @@ https://dr-emann.github.io/squashfs/ # Copyright & License +In short: libsquashfs.so is LGPLv3 licensed, the utility programs are GPLv3. + +Some 3rd party source code is included with more permissive licenses, some of +which is actually compiled into libsquashfs. Copyright notices for those must +be included when distributing either source or binaries of squashfs-tools-ng. + See [COPYING.md](COPYING.md) for copyright and licensing information. |