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From now on, the only licensing option for libcoap is BSD 2-Clause.
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obgm committed Jun 1, 2017
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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions CONTRIBUTE
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The libcoap project is a FOSS project that is dual licensed. The maintainer
for the libcoap is Olaf Bergmann <bergmann@tzi.org>.
Any contributions have to be made dual licensed under the terms of the
Any contributions have to be made under the terms of the
license

* BSD 2-Clause (The BSD 2-Clause License)

and

* GPL v2+ (The GNU General Public License 2.0 or later)
Contributions made up to 2017-06-01 have been made under the dual
license model BSD 2-Clause and GPL v2+ (The GNU General Public License
2.0 or later).

The used VCS for libcoap is Git, the main repository is living on GitHub.
You can clone (or fork directly on GitHub) on the repository site:
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libcoap is published as open-source software without any warranty of any kind.

Use is permitted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL),
Version 2 or higher, OR the simplified BSD license.
Use is permitted under the terms of the simplified BSD 2-Clause license.

The respective license file are shipped as LICENSE.BSD and LICENSE.GPL.
The respective license file is shipped as LICENSE.BSD.
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Copyright (c) 2010--2015, Olaf Bergmann
Copyright (c) 2010--2017, Olaf Bergmann and others
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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6 changes: 2 additions & 4 deletions README.md
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This library is published as open-source software without any warranty
of any kind. Use is permitted under the terms of the GNU General
Public License (GPL), Version 2 or higher, OR the simplified BSD
license. Please refer to LICENSE.GPL oder LICENSE.BSD for further
details.
of any kind. Use is permitted under the terms of the simplified BSD
license. Please refer to LICENSE.BSD for further details.

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