This package was debianized by Ivo Timmermans <ivo@debian.org> on
Fri,  3 Aug 2001 10:02:38 +0200.

It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/pub/gcrypt/alpha/libgcrypt/

Upstream Authors: Werner Koch and others.

Copyright: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1,
except two binaries, which are not built in this package.  See the
file README in the package libgcrypt-doc, or the excerpt below for
details.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser
General Public License can be found in
`/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'; the GNU General Public License can
be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.


The documentation is distributed under the the terms of the GNU Free
Documentation License:

  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
  any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
  Invariant Sections, with no the Front-Cover texts, and with no
  Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section
  entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.


Excerpt from /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-doc/README (in the package
libgcrypt-doc):

    License
    -------
    
    Most of this library is distributed under the terms of the GNU
    Lesser General Public License (LGPL); see the file COPYING.LIB for
    the actual terms.  However some parts are distributed under the
    GNU General Public License (GPL) so if you configure Libgcrypt to
    include these modules, you have to comply with the conditions of
    the GPL as found in the file COPYING.  The modules under the GPL
    are:

      rndunix - Entropy gatherer for Unices without a /dev/random
      rndw32  - Entropy gatherer for MS Windows

    The documentation is available under the terms of the GNU Free
    Documentation License; see the file COPYING.DOC for the terms.

    This library used to be available under the GPL - this was changed
    with version 1.1.7 with the rationale that there are now many free
    crypto libraries available and many of them come with capabilities
    similar to Libcrypt.  We decided that to foster the use of
    cryptography in Free Software an LGPLed library would make more
    sense because it avoids problems due to license incompatibilities
    between some Free Software licenses and the GPL. 

    Please note that in many cases it is better for a library to be
    licensed under the GPL, so that it provides an advantage for free
    software projects.  The Lesser GPL is so named because it does
    less to protect the freedom of the users of the code that it
    covers.  See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html for
    more explanation.