<!-- Copyright 2021 The Libfossil Authors, see LICENSES/CC-BY-SA-4.0 -->
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 -->
<!-- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 The Libfossil Authors -->
<!-- SPDX-ArtifactOfProjectName: Libfossil -->
<!-- SPDX-FileType: Documentation -->
# Licenses
This directory documents the legal text of the licenses applying to the Libfossil Documentation project.
All files in this project should in addition have a [Software Package Data Exchange](https://spdx.dev)
machine-readable header.
# Two-clause BSD License
The [two-clause BSD license](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause) applies to libfossil code. This
license is also known as the "Simplified BSD license" and the "FreeBSD license".
Astute observers will notice that many of the lower-level bits of
libfossil are almost verbatim copies of those from the Fossil SCM
project (https://fossil-scm.org) but claim different copyright
holders. Such code was ported or copied into this project, and the
copyright changed to this project's developers, with the express
consent of D. Richard Hipp (copyright holder of the Fossil SCM code).
# Creative Commons License
The [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
license applies to libfossil documentation. Where documentation is derived from Libfossil code
(eg by the [Doxygen tool](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxygen) the resulting documentation is
also under the Creative Commons license.