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Open Source Used In Cisco Nexus 9000 Series 7.0(3)I5(1)

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including the two.

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for all of the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify

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version. If you delete this exception statement from all source

files in the program, then also delete it here.

1.39 curl 7.24.0 :r8

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License Mixing with apps, libcurl and Third Party Libraries

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libcurl can be built to use a fair amount of various third party libraries,

libraries that are written and provided by other parties that are distributed

using their own licenses. Even libcurl itself contains code that may cause

problems to some. This document attempts to describe what licenses libcurl and

the other libraries use and what possible dilemmas linking and mixing them all

can lead to for end users.

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice!

One common dilemma is that GPL[1]-licensed code is not allowed to be linked