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[3/5] COPYING: add exception about patch licensing

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Luca Ceresoli Feb. 1, 2016, 2:52 p.m. UTC
Several people have been asking what is the license of the patches
provided by Buildroot. COPYING is the authoritative place to state this.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
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 COPYING | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

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Thomas Petazzoni Feb. 1, 2016, 6:54 p.m. UTC | #1
Dear Luca Ceresoli,

On Mon,  1 Feb 2016 15:52:22 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> Several people have been asking what is the license of the patches
> provided by Buildroot. COPYING is the authoritative place to state this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
> ---
>  COPYING | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
> index d511905..8f2ba0b 100644
> --- a/COPYING
> +++ b/COPYING
> @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
> +Except for the below exception, Buildroot is licensed under the GNU
> +General Public License, version 2, whose text is reported below.

is "reported" the right word here ?

Thomas
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diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index d511905..8f2ba0b 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ 
+Except for the below exception, Buildroot is licensed under the GNU
+General Public License, version 2, whose text is reported below.
+
+Exception:
+
+- Patches provided by Buildroot for packages are released under the
+  same license as the software that they modify.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+
 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
 		       Version 2, June 1991