copyrighted under GPLv2+ here is a typical file header: /*************************************************************************** * This is the source code of Maitreya, open source platform * for Vedic and western astrology. * File src/base/Lang.h * Release 6.0 * Author M. Pettau * Copyright 2003-2010 by the author * 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 2 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. ****************************************************************************/ here is the contents of the upstream's COPYING file minus the actual text of the GPL2: This program is copyrighted (C) 2003-2010 M. Pettau, and is distributed under terms of the GNU GPL v. 2.0 or later. The author can be contacted at http://www.saravali.de/contact.html. The software is Open Source and free for private and commercial use. Parts of this program contain code from Swiss Ephemeris project http://www.astro.com/swisseph/. which is licensed under the GNU GPL v. 2.0 or later. Swiss Ephemeris is authored by Dieter Koch and Alois Treindl and is copyright (C) 1997 - 2008 Astrodienst AG, Switzerland. Parts of this program contain code from the wxpdfdoc project. http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/components/wxpdfdoc/ and are (C) Ulrich Telle . wxpdfdoc is licensed under the wxWindows license, available at http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/licence3.txt. This license is also the license of the GUI toolkit wxWidgets used in the program. The text of the GPLV2 can be found at: /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 Here is the text of the wxWindows license except that I, Paul Elliott, have corrected the address of the FSF: wxWindows Library Licence, Version 3.1 ====================================== Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Julian Smart, Robert Roebling et al Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this licence document, but changing it is not allowed. WXWINDOWS LIBRARY LICENCE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version. This library 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 Library General Public Licence for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public Licence along with this software, usually in a file named COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. EXCEPTION NOTICE 1. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give permission for additional uses of the text contained in this release of the library as licenced under the wxWindows Library Licence, applying either version 3.1 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version of the Licence as published by the copyright holders of version 3.1 of the Licence document. 2. The exception is that you may use, copy, link, modify and distribute under your own terms, binary object code versions of works based on the Library. 3. If you copy code from files distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence or the GNU Library General Public Licence into a copy of this library, as this licence permits, the exception does not apply to the code that you add in this way. To avoid misleading anyone as to the status of such modified files, you must delete this exception notice from such code and/or adjust the licensing conditions notice accordingly. 4. If you write modifications of your own for this library, it is your choice whether to permit this exception to apply to your modifications. If you do not wish that, you must delete the exception notice from such code and/or adjust the licensing conditions notice accordingly. Symbol Font ----------- Astrological symbols based on the Starfisher font and generated by Kenneth Hirst for Maitreya software. The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License.