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## Project license and copyright status
Simson Garfinkel originally developed **bulk_extractor** while at the Naval
Postgraduate School (NPS). Original works created in that U.S. Government
employment are not subject to U.S. copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. ยง 105.
That status applies only to the original NPS material.
Simson Garfinkel left NPS in January 2015. All post-NPS, project-authored
bulk_extractor code and documentation developed or modified in his personal
capacity are licensed under the **GNU General Public License, version 3 or
later (GPL-3.0-or-later)**. Third-party components retain their original
license terms as stated in their source headers and applicable files under
[`licenses/`](licenses/); the [Other materials](#other-materials) list is a
non-authoritative inventory. The GPLv3 text is in
[`licenses/LICENSE.GPLv3`](licenses/LICENSE.GPLv3). Distributions of the
program must therefore comply with the GPL and provide the corresponding
source as required by that license.
This GPL statement supersedes the prior statement that post-NPS modifications
were under the MIT License. Do not describe bulk_extractor as a public-domain
project: only the identified original NPS material has that status.
## Other materials
bulk_extractor provides other materials with different licenses than the
ones mentioned previously. Copies of the licenses mentioned below can be
found under the licenses/ directory.
Licensed under the Common Public License 1.0
* src/tsk3 includes SleuthKit 3 include files that are party of
SleuthKit 3. These files are Copyright (C) 2010 Brian Carrier
- Licensed under the MIT License
* src/base64_forensic.cpp is Copyright (C) 1996-1999 by Internet Software Consortium, with
portions Copyright (C) 1995 by International Business Machines, Inc.
* src/be13_api/utf8.h is Copyright 2006 Nemanja Trifunovic
* src/old_scanners/scan_ascii85.cpp is Copyright (C) 2011 Remy Oukaour
* src/scan_json.cpp is Copyright (C) 2021 Simson L. Garfinkel and Jan Gruber
- Licensed under General Public License version 3 and later
* src/pyxpress.c is Copyright 2008 (C) Matthieu Suiche. <msuiche[at]gmail.com>
- Licensed under Lesser General Public License version 2.1
* src/scan_elf.cpp
- Licensed under Lesser General Public License version 3 and later
* src/dfxml is Copyright 2012 (C) Simson L. Garfinkel
* src/scan_outlook.h is Copyright (C) 2008-2014, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>
- Licensed under General Public License version 3 with the Autoconf exception:
* m4/ac_prog_java.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
* m4/ac_prog_java_works.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
* m4/ac_check_rqrd_class.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
* m4/ax_pthread.m4 is Copyright (C) 2008 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>, 2011 Daniel Richard G. <skunk@iSKUNK.ORG>
* m4/ac_prog_java_cc.m4 is Copyright (C) 2002 Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
* m4/ac_prog_javac.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
* m4/ac_prog_javac_works.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
* m4/ac_check_classpath.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
- Licensed under OpenSSL License
- NOTE: Because of the fact that the GPL (including version 3) is incompatible with some terms of the OpenSSL license, the author hereby explicitly states a license exception, which permits the linking of bulk_extractor with OpenSSL.
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