[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] docs/manual: slightly clarify patch licensing

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Feb 1 18:53:12 UTC 2016


Luca,

On Mon,  1 Feb 2016 15:52:21 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> Adding a patch is a modification to Buildroot. Thus this sentence might be
> interpreted as "Patches are released under the Buildroot license".
> 
> Being a legal matter, the last thing we want is to be
> ambiguous. Reword the sentence to avoid any misunderstandings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
> ---
>  docs/manual/patch-policy.txt | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt b/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt
> index 0b4604e..cfda5c5 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt
> @@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ If something goes wrong in the steps _3_ or _4_, then the build fails.
>  
>  === Format and licensing of the package patches
>  
> -Patches are released under the same license as the software that is
> -modified.
> +Patches are released under the same license as the software that they
> +modify.

"as the software that they apply to" ?

Thomas
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