[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] COPYING: add exception about patch licensing

Luca Ceresoli luca at lucaceresoli.net
Thu Feb 25 11:51:14 UTC 2016


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 at lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Cc: Steve Calfee <stevecalfee at gmail.com>

---
Changes v2 -> v3:
 - Rewrite it entirely based on comments on the mailing list (Yann,
   Arnout, Thomas, Peter, Steve).

Changes v1 -> v2:
 - Rewrite it almost entirely (Arnout, Thomas).
---
 COPYING | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index d511905..0c018b0 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -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
 
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