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-Cygwin is free software. Red Hat, Inc. licenses Cygwin to you under the
-terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-Foundation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
-the GNU General Public License either version 3 of the license, or (at your
-option) any later version (GPLv3+), along with the additional permissions
-given below.
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR
+IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+Unless stated otherwise, the sources under the cygwin subdirectory are
+licensed under the Lesser Gnu Public License, version 3 or (at your
+option) any later version (LGPLv3+). See the COPYING.LIB file for the
+exact wording of that license.
+
+Unless stated otherwise, the sources under the cygserver, the lsaauth,
+and the utils subdirectories are licensed under the Gnu Public License,
+version 3 or (at your option) any later version (GPLv3+). See the
+COPYING file for the exact wording of that license.
+
+Parts of the sources in any subdirectory are licensed using a BSD-like
+license. The affected source files contain explicit copyright notices
+to that effect.
+
+Linking Exception:
+
+ As a special exception, the copyright holders of the Cygwin library
+ grant you additional permission to link libcygwin.a, crt0.o, and
+ gcrt0.o with independent modules to produce an executable, and to
+ convey the resulting executable under terms of your choice, without
+ any need to comply with the conditions of LGPLv3 section 4. An
+ independent module is a module which is not itself based on the
+ Cygwin library.
-There is NO WARRANTY for this software, express or implied, including
-the implied warranties of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
-PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
-with this program. If not, see <http://gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-
-Additional Permissions:
-
-
-1. Linking Exception.
-
-As a special exception to GPLv3+, Red Hat grants you permission to link
-software whose sources are distributed under a license that satisfies
-the Open Source Definition with libcygwin.a, without libcygwin.a
-itself causing the resulting program to be covered by GPLv3+.
-
-This means that you can port an Open Source application to Cygwin, and
-distribute that executable as if it didn't include a copy of
-libcygwin.a linked into it. Note that this does not apply to the
-Cygwin DLL itself. If you distribute a (possibly modified) version of
-the Cygwin DLL, you must adhere to the terms of GPLv3+, including the
-requirement to provide sources for the Cygwin DLL, unless you have obtained
-a special Cygwin license to distribute the Cygwin DLL in only its binary
-form (see below).
-
-See http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd/ for the precise Open Source
-Definition referenced above.
-
-
-2. Files Excluded from GPL Coverage.
-
-Red Hat grants you permission to distribute Cygwin with the following
-files, which are not considered part of Cygwin and are not governed by
-GPLv3+, in source or binary form.
-
-winsup\testsuite\winsup.api\msgtest.c
-winsup\testsuite\winsup.api\semtest.c
-winsup\testsuite\winsup.api\shmtest.c
-
-Red Hat grants you permission to link or combine code in Cygwin with
-code in or corresponding to the following files, which are not
-considered part of Cygwin and are not governed by GPLv3+, and to
-distribute such combinations under terms of your choice, provided that
-such terms are otherwise consistent with the application of GPLv3+ to
-Cygwin itself. You must comply with GPLv3+ with respect to all
-portions of such combinations other than those that correspond to or
-are derived from such non-Cygwin code but which do not correspond to
-or are not derived from Cygwin itself.
-
-winsup\cygserver\sysv_shm.cc
-
-
-3. Alternative License.
-
-Red Hat sells a special Cygwin License for customers who are unable to
-provide their application in open source code form. For more
-information, please see: http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/, or call
-+1-866-2REDHAT ext. 45300 (toll-free in the US).
-
-Outside the US call your regional Red Hat office, see
-http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/