From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:16:02 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/2] docs/manual: add section about patch licensing In-Reply-To: <1456401075-16948-3-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> References: <1456401075-16948-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <1456401075-16948-3-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <20160225201602.GC5870@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Luca, All, On 2016-02-25 12:51 +0100, Luca Ceresoli spake thusly: > Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli > Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) > Cc: Peter Korsgaard > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > Cc: Steve Calfee > > --- > > Note: although there are only wording improvements since v2, I did not > carry the Acked-by from Thomas and Arnout because the topic is > delicate and Yann explicitly nacked the patch. IIRC, I NAKed it because, in case of proprietary packages, the patches can only be available under the FLOSS license of the package they are applied to. [--SNIP--] > +==== Patches to packages > + > +Buildroot is bundled with a set of patches that are applied to > +packages to fix cross-compilation or other issues. See > +xref:patch-policy[] for the technical details. > + > +These patches are effectively a derived work of the package they are > +applied to, and so they are released under the same license as the > +software they apply to. They are not distributed under the Buildroot > +license. Why not repeat the same sentence as the one from the previous patch? 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. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'