From f0a679e9c37ca74ee5e056d144475f711aaca00a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daira Hopwood Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:46:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Address feedback about the use of "permissive". Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood Extracted from: https://github.com/zcash/librustzcash/commit/a9aa2929d282d84ff4a2182d88cf69cd48e79060 --- README.md | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index faf09db..ffa1325 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -25,9 +25,12 @@ at your option. Downstream code forks should note that 'zcash_note_encryption' depends on the 'orchard' crate, which is licensed under the [Bootstrap Open Source License](https://github.com/zcash/orchard/blob/main/LICENSE-BOSL). -An [exception](https://github.com/zcash/orchard/blob/main/COPYING) is -provided that makes this a "permissive" license when used in Zcash or some -of its chain forks. +A license exception is provided allowing some derived works that are linked or +combined with the 'orchard' crate to be copied or distributed under the original +licenses (in this case MIT / Apache 2.0), provided that the included portions of +the 'orchard' code remain subject to BOSL. +See https://github.com/zcash/orchard/blob/main/COPYING for details of which +derived works can make use of this exception. ### Contribution