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

[Yann E. MORIN]

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 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>

Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at 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
> 

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