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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Fri Jan 16 15:54:51 2004 UTC (20 years, 9 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_17, LIBSTATGRAB_0_16, LIBSTATGRAB_0_15, LIBSTATGRAB_0_14, LIBSTATGRAB_0_13, LIBSTATGRAB_0_12, LIBSTATGRAB_0_11_1, LIBSTATGRAB_0_11, LIBSTATGRAB_0_10_3, LIBSTATGRAB_0_10_2, LIBSTATGRAB_0_10_1, LIBSTATGRAB_0_10, LIBSTATGRAB_0_9, LIBSTATGRAB_0_8_2, LIBSTATGRAB_0_8_1, HEAD
Log Message:
Alter the licensing of libstatgrab. The library part is now under the
LGPL, whilst the tools/examples are under the GPL. Both licenses are
included in the distribution (and are both now in CVS). Also made a
minor alteration to the webpage where it said everything was licensed
under the GPL.

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