[tor-commits] [tor/master] clarify that tor's license is free software

[asn at torproject.org]

commit 272265efbd89c4c2589316a20cf27064def21911
Author: Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 23 21:52:33 2019 -0400

    clarify that tor's license is free software
    
    no actual changes to the license.
    
    this way folks who don't immediately recognize the text of the 3-clause
    bsd can be reassured that we're using a standard license.
    
    closes ticket #31498
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 LICENSE | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index cc2766842..438208426 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
         there may be other license terms that you should be aware of.
 
 ===============================================================================
-Tor is distributed under this license:
+Tor is distributed under the "3-clause BSD" license, a commonly used
+software license that means Tor is both free software and open source:
 
 Copyright (c) 2001-2004, Roger Dingledine
 Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson