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| author | Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> | 2016-02-25 12:51:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> | 2016-02-26 19:50:13 +0100 |
| commit | d830036cceade7052630ec256b35117fdaffa3fd (patch) | |
| tree | da22e09786cd64af66da31995194298071561299 /COPYING | |
| parent | 7c87cac47a9fd9685d39e692dba4b53e1abe8739 (diff) | |
COPYING: add exception about patch licensing
Several people have been asking what is the license of the patches
provided by Buildroot. COPYING is the authoritative place to state it.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Steve Calfee <stevecalfee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'COPYING')
| -rw-r--r-- | COPYING | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +With the exceptions below, Buildroot is distributed under the terms of +the GNU General Public License, reproduced below; either version 2 of +the License, or (at your option) any later version. + +Some files in Buildroot contain a different license statement. Those +files are licensed under the license contained in the file itself. + +Buildroot also bundles patch files, which are applied to the sources +of the various packages. Those patches are not covered by the license +of Buildroot. Instead, they are covered by the license of the software +to which the patches are applied. When said software is available +under multiple licenses, the Buildroot patches are only provided under +the publicly accessible licenses. + +----------------------------------------------------------------- + GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 |