[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/5] COPYING: add exception about patch licensing

[Steve Calfee]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Also, I think there is a grammatical problem with your sentence, if you
> read it again. What about:
>
>         Those patches are not covered by the license of Buildroot.
>         Instead, they are covered by the license of the software they
>         apply to. When said software is available under multiple
>         licenses, the Buildroot patches are only provided under
>         the publicly accessible licenses.
>

I had an English teacher who used to joke:
Do not use a preposition to end a sentence with.

(to, for, with ...) are prepositions.

How about:
"Instead, they are covered by the license of the software to which the
patches are applied."