This is the COPYING file for Rarian. Rarian is distributed in two parts. The first, the library (librarian and headers) is distributed under the LGPL version 2.1 (or at you're discretion any later version of this license). Please see the file COPYING.LIB for full details. The second part are the utilities (files in util/). These are distributed under the terms of the GPL, version 2.0 (or at you're discretion any later version of this license). Please see the file COPYING.UTILS for full details. Files excluded from this license are util/tiny*, which are taken from the TinyXML package and are available under a more permissive license, which can be found reproduced below: -- TinyXML license: www.sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxml Original code (2.0 and earlier )copyright (c) 2000-2002 Lee Thomason (www.grinninglizard.com) This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. -- End TinyXML license There, I hope that clears things up for you.