From: Matthias Maier <tamiko@43-1.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 08:23:52 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: doc: remove outdated license information from readme.html
X-Git-Tag: relicensing^2
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doc: remove outdated license information from readme.html

We summarize all license related information in LICENSE.md
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diff --git a/doc/readme.html b/doc/readme.html
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         <a href="developers/cmake-internals.html">build system internals</a>.
     </p>
 
-
-    <a name="license"></a>
-    <h2>License</h2>
-
-    <p>
-        The deal.II library is free software; you can use it, redistribute it, and/or modify it under the terms of the
-        <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html">GNU Lesser General
-      Public License</a> (LGPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-    </p>
-    <p>
-        This allows you to use the library free of charge for private, academic, or commercial use (under the terms of the LGPL v2.1 or later). You are guaranteed full access to the source code and are encouraged to help in the further development of the library.
-        Follow
-        <a href="https://www.dealii.org/license.html" target="body">this
-        link</a> for detailed information.
-    </p>
-    <p>
-        Please note:</p>
-    <ul>
-        <li>
-            Detailed license information can be found following
-            <a href="https://www.dealii.org/license.html" target="body">this link</a>.
-        </li>
-        <li>
-            <b>As a contributor to this project, you agree that any of your
-          contributions be licensed under the same terms and conditions as
-          the license of the deal.II project granted to you.</b>
-        </li>
-        <li>
-            We, <a href="https://www.dealii.org/authors.html" target="_top">the deal.II Authors</a>, do not require copyright assignments for contributions. This means that the copyright for code contributions in the deal.II project is held by its respective
-            contributors who have each agreed to release their contributed code under the terms of the LGPL v2.1 or later.
-        </li>
-        <li>
-            In addition to the terms imposed by the LGPL (version 2.1 or later), we ask for the courtesy that scientific publications presenting results obtained with this libraries acknowledge its use. Please cite one of the papers referenced
-            <a href="https://www.dealii.org/publications.html">here</a>.
-        </li>
-        <li>
-            <acronym>deal.II</acronym> can interface with a number of <a href="#optional-software">other packages</a> that you either have to install yourself. They are, of course, covered by their own licenses. In addition, deal.II comes bundled with
-            copies of
-            <a href="https://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html">
-          UMFPACK</a>,
-            <a href="https://threadingbuildingblocks.org/" target="_top">Threading Building Blocks</a>,
-            <a href="https://www.boost.org/" target="_top">BOOST</a>,
-            <a href="https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos" target="_top">Kokkos</a>, and
-            <a href="https://muparser.beltoforion.de/" target="_top">muparser</a>, courtesy of their authors. These are also covered by their own licenses; please refer to their webpages for more information.
-        </li>
-    </ul>
-
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