Adding AUTHORS and changing licensing terms from 'GPLv2 or later' to 'GPLv3 or later' to comply with components available only under 'GPLv3 or later'. Details:
Initial releases by Jonathan Westhues in 2005-2007 were made under GPL
"either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version"
Since then, a number of dependencies and files were integrated to the project, but under a "GPLv3 or later" license. These components are reveng, desfire_crypto and lrpcrypto. Note that compnents cryptorf, hitag2crack and fpga-xc3s100e are also under GPLv3+ but not bound to the firmware or client source code.
Therefore, we must mechanically upgrade the license of the whole project to GPLv3+, as made possible by the initial licensing terms and as mandated by the inclusion of GPLv3+ code.
Still to do: update each source file header:
Copyright (C) Proxmark3 contributors. See AUTHORS.md for details.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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Initial author of the Proxmark3 code is Jonathan Westhues, starting in August 2005.
His latest release was done in May 2007 and is available [here ](https://cq.cx/dl/proxmark3-may23-2007.zip ) (copy available [here ](http://proxmark.org/files/J.Westhues/ )).
Initial copyright notice is therefore:
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Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Jonathan Westhues
Adding AUTHORS and changing licensing terms from 'GPLv2 or later' to 'GPLv3 or later' to comply with components available only under 'GPLv3 or later'. Details:
Initial releases by Jonathan Westhues in 2005-2007 were made under GPL
"either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version"
Since then, a number of dependencies and files were integrated to the project, but under a "GPLv3 or later" license. These components are reveng, desfire_crypto and lrpcrypto. Note that compnents cryptorf, hitag2crack and fpga-xc3s100e are also under GPLv3+ but not bound to the firmware or client source code.
Therefore, we must mechanically upgrade the license of the whole project to GPLv3+, as made possible by the initial licensing terms and as mandated by the inclusion of GPLv3+ code.
Still to do: update each source file header:
Copyright (C) Proxmark3 contributors. See AUTHORS.md for details.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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Since then, each contribution is under the copyright of its respective author.
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A few releases were done by the Proxmark3 community between 2007 and March 2009 before using version control.
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The last release which served as basis for version control, under SVN then migrated to Git, was the `20090306_ela` release by Edouard Lafargue. See the first commit of this repository.
Adding AUTHORS and changing licensing terms from 'GPLv2 or later' to 'GPLv3 or later' to comply with components available only under 'GPLv3 or later'. Details:
Initial releases by Jonathan Westhues in 2005-2007 were made under GPL
"either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version"
Since then, a number of dependencies and files were integrated to the project, but under a "GPLv3 or later" license. These components are reveng, desfire_crypto and lrpcrypto. Note that compnents cryptorf, hitag2crack and fpga-xc3s100e are also under GPLv3+ but not bound to the firmware or client source code.
Therefore, we must mechanically upgrade the license of the whole project to GPLv3+, as made possible by the initial licensing terms and as mandated by the inclusion of GPLv3+ code.
Still to do: update each source file header:
Copyright (C) Proxmark3 contributors. See AUTHORS.md for details.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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Therefore, only the following copyright notices are left untouched in the corresponding files:
- copyright notices present in the `20090306_ela` release
- copyright notices of code borrowed from other projects
- copyright notices of standalone modes initial authors
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- copyright notices of dependencies (client/deps, common)
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Since then, copyright of each contribution is tracked by the Git history. See the output of `git shortlog -nse` for a full list or `git log --pretty=short --follow <path/to/sourcefile> |git shortlog -ne` to track a specific file. See also [the Contributors page on Github ](https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/graphs/contributors ) and [this Gource animation ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vpk0iIq9s ) retracing the commits history from March 2009 until January 2022.
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A [mailmap ](.mailmap ) is maintained to map author and committer names and email addresses to canonical names and email addresses.
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If by accident a copyright was removed from a file and is *not* directly deducible from the Git history, please submit a PR.
