Clarify everything into a toplevel file

svn path=/trunk/mono/; revision=63820

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+++ b/LICENSE
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+
+Mono is made up of many pieces of code, all of them open source, but
+different pieces of Mono use different licensing terms.
+
+For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@novell.com
+
+* Dual Licensing
+
+       Parts of Mono are dual licensed, they are available to the
+       public in GPL or LGPL forms, but we also offer those pieces
+       under commercial terms from Novell for when the GPL and the
+       LGPL are not suitable.
+
+       We have tried to pick the licenses that will maximize adoption
+       of Mono, so we tend to use the MIT X11 or LGPL liceses.
+
+       Contributions to dual-licensed module require that the author
+       contributes the code under the terms of the MIT X11 code, or
+       to sign an agreement that allows Novell to redistribute the
+       code under other licenses.
+
+       Contributions for other modules should be under the same license
+       terms as the rest of the module, or under MIT X11 terms. 
+
+       If you ned further information, please contact mono@novell.com
+
+* The Modules
+
+** mono/mono: the Mono VM
+
+       This code is dual licensed under the LGPL or commercial licenses. 
+
+       The LGPL ensures that Mono can be used in most scenarios, but 
+       gives Novell the flexibility to relicense the code for embedded
+       systems or commercial settings where the LGPL can not be used. 
+
+       Contact mono@novell.com for details on obtaining the Mono
+       runtime under other terms.
+
+** mono/eglib: Mono's X11 glib implementation
+
+       This is a minimal subset of glib that is to be licensed under
+       the terms of the MIT X11, this means that this code can be
+       used for any purposes by anyone.
+
+** mcs/mcs, mcs/gmcs
+
+       The C# Compilers (1.0 and 2.0)
+
+       These compilers are dual licensed under the GPL and commercial
+       terms.
+
+** tests
+
+       Unless explicitly stated, the tests are under the MIT X11 license.
+
+** mcs/class
+
+       The class libraries developed by the Mono team are licensed
+       under the MIT X11 terms.
+
+       In addition to the class libraries developed by the Mono team,
+       there are a number of class libraries that we bundle as part
+       of the distribution that were integrated from third-parties or
+       that contain code that was originally licensed under different
+       terms, these are:
+
+           ByteFX.Data: LGPL
+
+           Npgsql: LGPL
+
+           FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird: Firebird public license.
+               See: mcs/class/FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird/license.txt
+
+            ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib, GPL with exceptions.
+               See: mcs/class/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/README
+
+            
+** mcs/tools
+
+       These are licensed under the MIT X11 license, except where the
+       GPL is explicitly used. 
+
+** mcs/jay
+
+       This is a port of Berkeley yacc, so it is available under the BSD
+       license.   See the license in the individual C files for details.
+
+** mono/man
+
+       Manual pages and Mono documentation are covered by the MIT X11 license. 
+
+* The Licenses
+
+       These are the licenses used in Mono, the files are located:
+
+        GNU GPL: details avaliable in the file mcs/LICENSE.GPL
+        GNU LGPL: details available in the file mcs/LICENSE.LGPL
+        MIT X11: text available in the file mcs/MIT.X11
+        MPL: text available in the file mcs/LICENSE.MPL
+

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 9bacf37535d137c8f5f1b397dec7c0e9662c3e63..587ed44b1f4e89c3a36c645b500fbc39f42dc5fa 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DIST_SUBDIRS = libgc mono ikvm-native support docs data runtime scripts man samp
 
 vs_files = genmdesc.vcproj libmono.vcproj mono.vcproj mono.sln
 
-EXTRA_DIST= mono.pc.in mint.pc.in mono-uninstalled.pc.in dotnet.pc.in mono-cairo.pc.in $(vs_files)
+EXTRA_DIST= mono.pc.in mint.pc.in mono-uninstalled.pc.in dotnet.pc.in mono-cairo.pc.in LICENSE $(vs_files)
 
 DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = EXTERNAL_MCS=false EXTERNAL_RUNTIME=false