[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/5] COPYING: add exception about patch licensing
Luca Ceresoli
luca at lucaceresoli.net
Mon Feb 1 22:19:54 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: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
---
Changes v1 -> v2:
- Rewrite it almost entirely (Arnout, Thomas).
---
COPYING | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index d511905..3596777 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Except for the patches provided for packages, Buildroot is licensed
+under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
+
+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
--
1.9.1
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