COPYING

Copyright (c) 2016-2022 The Zcash developers
Copyright (c) 2009-2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
Copyright (c) 2009-2022 Bitcoin Developers

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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THE SOFTWARE.


The MIT software license (https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
above applies to the code directly included in this source distribution, with
the exception of certain Autoconf macros. Dependencies downloaded as part of
the build process may be covered by other open-source licenses. The MIT-licensed
source code is not considered a derived work of these Autoconf macros or of the
dependencies. For further details see 'contrib/debian/copyright'.


Although almost all of the Zcash code is licensed under "permissive" open source
licenses, users and distributors should note that when built using the default
build options, Zcash depends on Oracle Berkeley DB 6.2.x, which is licensed
under the GNU Affero General Public License.


Contributors should understand licensing implications before modifying the
following files in build-aux/m4 (see https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/2827):

 * ax_check_compile_flag.m4
 * ax_check_link_flag.m4
 * ax_check_preproc_flag.m4
 * ax_pthread.m4