dosbox-automation License
------------------------

dosbox-automation is a fork of DOSBox Staging, which is itself a fork
of DOSBox. All works derived from the DOSBox project carry the same
license terms as granted by the DOSBox authors: the GNU General Public
License version 2 or later (GPL-2.0-or-later).

Original works authored by the dosbox-automation project are also
licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later to maintain compatibility with the
upstream codebase and other DOSBox forks.

The full license text is in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt.


Third-party components
----------------------

This project includes third-party libraries, emulator cores, and
bundled programs under various open-source licenses. All are compatible
with the GPL-2.0-or-later as confirmed by the GNU license compatibility
guidelines.

See THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt for the complete inventory and the full
text of each license.

The license of each individual source file is stated in its first few
lines, either as a house-format header or an SPDX-License-Identifier.


License compatibility
---------------------

As depicted in GNU's license compatibility flow chart [1] and their
FAQ [2], the following license upgrades are permitted:

  LGPL-2.1-or-later -> GPL-2.0-or-later -> GPL-3.0-or-later
  LGPL-3.0-or-later -> GPL-3.0-or-later

Taken as a whole, the compiled binaries of dosbox-automation are
covered by the terms of GPL-2.0-or-later.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.en.html
[2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility
