commit 4005ee32847b963f2c987a22b56378af9b2e0562
parent 9ead4c87a79e0d79d70c42fbf777663ab3301a16
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:01:35 +0200
docs: mention in the README which licenses cover nano's code and docs
Suggested-by: Lars Wirzenius -- https://liw.fi/readme-review/
Diffstat:
| M | README | | | 19 | +++++++++++++------ |
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ Origin
The nano editor is an official GNU package. For more information on
GNU and the Free Software Foundation, please see https://www.gnu.org/.
+License
+
+ Nano's code and documentation are covered by the GPL version 3 or
+ (at your option) any later version, except for two functions that
+ were copied from busybox which are under a BSD license. Nano's
+ documentation is additionally covered by the GNU Free Documentation
+ License version 1.2 or (at your option) any later version. See the
+ files COPYING and COPYING.DOC for the full text of these licenses.
+
+ When in any file of this package a copyright notice mentions a
+ year range (such as 1999-2011), it is a shorthand for a list of
+ all the years in that interval.
+
How to compile and install nano
Download the latest nano source tarball, and then:
@@ -80,9 +93,3 @@ Bug Reports
If you find a bug, please file a detailed description of the problem
on nano's bug tracker: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano.
-
-Copyright Years
-
- When in any file of this package a copyright notice mentions a
- year range (such as 1999-2011), it is a shorthand for a list of
- all the years in that interval.
