--- trunk/xvidcore/LICENSE 2002/11/17 01:20:32 657 +++ trunk/xvidcore/LICENSE 2003/02/15 15:22:19 851 @@ -1,57 +1,3 @@ - XVID LICENSE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - -XviD is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL + Link over controlled -interface + location restrictions. - -The first part of the file presents the location restrictions -The second part of the file describes the linking permission. -The third part of the file is the GNU GPL v2. - - - - LOCATION RESTRICTIONS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Under section 8 of the GNU General Public License, the copyright -holders of XVID explicitly forbid distribution in the following -countries: - - - Japan - - United States of America - - - - LINKING PERMISSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Linking XviD statically or dynamically with other modules is making a -combined work based on XviD. Thus, the terms and conditions of the -GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. - -As a special exception, the copyright holders of XviD give you -permission to link XviD with independent modules that communicate with -XviD solely through the VFW1.1 and DShow interfaces, regardless of the -license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute -the resulting combined work under terms of your choice, provided that -every copy of the combined work is accompanied by a complete copy of -the source code of XviD (the version of XviD used to produce the -combined work), being distributed under the terms of the GNU General -Public License plus this exception. An independent module is a module -which is not derived from or based on XviD. - -Note that people who make modified versions of XviD are not obligated -to grant this special exception for their modified versions; it is -their choice whether to do so. The GNU General Public License gives -permission to release a modified version without this exception; this -exception also makes it possible to release a modified version which -carries forward this exception. - - - - THE GNU GPL ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991