Latest version 0.7 DFSG compatible Yes | Published 1995-04-15 FSF approved Yes | |
Author Publisher Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler | ||
The zlib license is a permissive free software license which defines the terms under which the zlib software library can be distributed. It is also used by many other free software packages. The libpng library uses a similar license sometimes referred interchangeably as the zlib/libpng license.
Contents
The zlib license has been approved by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as a free software licence, and by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as an open source license. It is compatible with the GNU General Public License.
Terms
The license only has the following points to be accounted for:
- The authorship of the original software must not be misrepresented,
- Altered source versions must not be misrepresented as being the original software, and
- The license notice must not be removed from source distributions.
The license does not require source code to be made available if distributing binary code.
Text
The license terms are as follows:
Copyright (c) <''year''> <''copyright holders''> 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.References
Zlib License Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA