License and Hall of Fame
========================

``structlog`` is licensed both under the `Apache License, Version 2 <https://choosealicense.com/licenses/apache/>`_ and the `MIT license <https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/>`_.

The reason for that is to be both protected against patent claims by own contributors and still allow the usage within GPLv2 software.
For more legal details, see `this issue <https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/1209>`_ on the bug tracker of PyCA's ``cryptography`` project.

The full license texts can be also found in the source code repository:

- `Apache License 2.0 <https://github.com/hynek/structlog/blob/master/LICENSE.apache2>`_
- `MIT <https://github.com/hynek/structlog/blob/master/LICENSE.mit>`_

.. _authors:

.. include:: ../AUTHORS.rst
