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clarify LICENSE and README #899

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Justin M. Keyes 2014-06-27 18:32:58 -04:00
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Copyright Neovim contributors. All rights reserved.
Neovim is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, except for
parts of Neovim that were contributed under the Vim license (see below).
Neovim's license follows:
====
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====
This license applies to all parts of Neovim that do not originate in Vim and
are not externally maintained libraries. The externally maintained libraries
used by Neovim are:
The above license applies to all parts of Neovim except (1) parts that were
contributed under the Vim license and (2) externally maintained libraries.
The externally maintained libraries used by Neovim are:
- Klib: a Generic Library in C. MIT/X11 license.
- libuv. Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors.
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====
Any parts of Neovim that originated in Vim are licensed under the Vim license.
Any parts of Neovim that were contributed under the Vim license are licensed
under the Vim license unless the copyright holder gave permission to license
those contributions under the Apache 2.0 license.
The Vim license follows:
VIM LICENSE

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### License
Neovim is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.
Parts of Neovim that originated in Vim remain under the Vim license.
Neovim is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, except for
parts that were contributed under the Vim license.
- Contributions committed before [b17d96][license-commit] by authors who did
not sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) remain under the Vim license.
- Contributions committed after [b17d96][license-commit] are licensed under
Apache 2.0 unless those contributions were copied from Vim (identified in
the commit logs by the `vim-patch` token).
See LICENSE for details.
Vim is Charityware. You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are
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You can also sponsor the development of Vim. Vim sponsors can vote for
features. The money goes to Uganda anyway.
[license-commit]: commit/b17d9691a24099c9210289f16afb1a498a89d803
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