| Message ID | 1456401075-16948-2-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net |
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| State | Accepted |
| Commit | d830036cceade7052630ec256b35117fdaffa3fd |
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Dear Luca Ceresoli, On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:51:14 +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 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> Thanks!
Luca, All, On 2016-02-25 12:51 +0100, Luca Ceresoli spake thusly: > 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: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Thanks! :-) Regards, Yann E. MORIN. > --- > 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 > > -- > 1.9.1 >
>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> writes: > 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> > --- > Changes v2 -> v3: > - Rewrite it entirely based on comments on the mailing list (Yann, > Arnout, Thomas, Peter, Steve). Committed, thanks.
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
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> --- 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(+)