From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:54:15 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/5] COPYING: add exception about patch licensing In-Reply-To: <1454338344-24973-4-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> References: <1454338344-24973-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <1454338344-24973-4-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <20160201195415.1f87f378@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Luca Ceresoli, On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:52:22 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote: > Several people have been asking what is the license of the patches > provided by Buildroot. COPYING is the authoritative place to state this. > > Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli > --- > COPYING | 10 ++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING > index d511905..8f2ba0b 100644 > --- a/COPYING > +++ b/COPYING > @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ > +Except for the below exception, Buildroot is licensed under the GNU > +General Public License, version 2, whose text is reported below. is "reported" the right word here ? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com