From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 18:37:29 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] question about buildroot manual license In-Reply-To: <20140307063131.GL4148@waldemar-brodkorb.de> References: <20140307063131.GL4148@waldemar-brodkorb.de> Message-ID: <20140307173729.GD3384@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Waldemar, All, On 2014-03-07 07:31 +0100, Waldemar Brodkorb spake thusly: > Hi developers, > I am reading the buildroot manual and it is nice to read. > I would like to add some documentation to my own buildroot derivate, > so my question is, what license is used for your document? > I have not found any mentioning about a license of the docs, > I am not sure if GPLv2 (the license of buildroot) is applicable > for documentation. What makes you think GPLv2 is not applicable to the Buildroot's manual? The license for Buildroot is GPLv2. Which means that everything provided with Buildroot, unless otherwise specified in the files themselves or in an accompanying license file, is covered by Buildroot's license. [*] Maybe the GPLv2 is not the best license for documentation, but as long as there is no other licensing terms for the manual, that's the license that applies to Buildroot's manual. [*] Note: the patches we cary against the different packages are of course covered by the license of the package they each apply to, which may or may not be the same license as Buildroot's. Refer to each package licensing terms for the license of the patches. > Is it enough for you, if I add something like this in the top > of the document: > "based on the buildroot manual. See http://www.buildroot.net for > original authors." No, that's not enough. You have to respect the full terms of the GPLv2. Which basicaly translates to providing, but is not limited to providing, the following items: - the source materials (the asciidoc files in docs/manual are considered the sources for the manual), - the scripts used to generate the manual from the asciidoc sources (the docs/manual/manual.mk), - the copyright notices where they appear, intact, with your own copyright added if you did some substantial changes Note: IANAL; this is not legal advice; consult a lawyer. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'