---
key: openssl-exception-gpl-3.0-plus
short_name: OpenSSL exception to GPL 3.0 or later
name: OpenSSL exception to GPL 3.0 or later
category: Copyleft
owner: Tildeslash
is_exception: yes
spdx_license_key: cryptsetup-OpenSSL-exception
other_spdx_license_keys:
    - LicenseRef-scancode-openssl-exception-gpl-3.0-plus
other_urls:
    - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
    - https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/blob/main/COPYING
    - https://gitlab.nic.cz/datovka/datovka/-/blob/develop/COPYING
    - https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi/blob/951123ad456bdf5ac94e8d8819342fe3d49bc002/naxsi_src/naxsi_raw.c
    - http://web.mit.edu/jgross/arch/amd64_deb60/bin/mosh
standard_notice: |
    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/>.
    In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give permission
    to link the code of portions of this program with the
    OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each individual
    source file, and distribute linked combinations
    including the two.
    You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the
    code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify
    file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your version
    of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you
    do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. If
    you delete this exception statement from all source
    files in the program, then also delete it here.
---

In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give permission to
link the code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL library under certain
conditions as described in each individual source file, and distribute linked
combinations including the two.

You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code
used other than OpenSSL.  If you modify file(s) with this exception, you may
extend this exception to your version of the file(s), but you are not obligated
to do so.  If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from
your version.  If you delete this exception statement from all source files in
the program, then also delete it here.