From d830036cceade7052630ec256b35117fdaffa3fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:51:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] COPYING: add exception about patch licensing 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 Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Cc: Peter Korsgaard Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Steve Calfee Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- COPYING | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index d511905c16..0c018b0395 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