Unverified Commit db17b31b by Edward Thomson Committed by GitHub

Merge pull request #4789 from pks-t/pks/licensing

docs: clarify and include licenses of dependencies
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Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
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.
Jean-loup Gailly Mark Adler
The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs
(Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files rfc1950 (zlib
format), rfc1951 (deflate format) and rfc1952 (gzip format).
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## Licensing
By contributing to libgit2, you agree to release your contribution under
the terms of the license. Except for the `examples` directory, all code
is released under the [GPL v2 with linking exception](COPYING).
the terms of the license. Except for the `examples` and the
`deps` directories, all code is released under the [GPL v2 with
linking exception](../COPYING).
The `examples` code is governed by the
[CC0 Public Domain Dedication](examples/COPYING), so that you may copy
[CC0 Public Domain Dedication](../examples/COPYING), so that you may copy
from them into your own application.
The bundled dependencies in the `deps` directories are governed
by the following licenses:
- http-parser is licensed under [MIT license](../deps/http-parser/COPYING)
- regex is governed by [LGPL v2.1+ license](../deps/regex/COPYING)
- winhttp is governed by [LGPL v2.1+](../deps/winhttp/COPYING.LGPL) and [GPL v2 with linking exception](../deps/winhttp/COPYING.GPL)
- zlib is governed by [zlib license](../deps/zlib/COPYING)
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