From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:15:14 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/5] docs/manual: slightly clarify patch licensing In-Reply-To: <1454365196-26319-3-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> References: <1454365196-26319-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <1454365196-26319-3-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <56BBB672.2050700@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 01-02-16 23:19, Luca Ceresoli wrote: > Adding a patch is a modification to Buildroot. Thus this sentence might be > interpreted as "Patches are released under the Buildroot license". > > Being a legal matter, the last thing we want is to be > ambiguous. Reword the sentence to avoid any misunderstandings. > > Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Please still add this in 2016.02. Regards, Arnout > > --- > Changes v1 -> v2: > - "they modify" -> "they apply to" (Thomas). > --- > docs/manual/patch-policy.txt | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt b/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt > index 0b4604e..d50c971 100644 > --- a/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt > +++ b/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt > @@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ If something goes wrong in the steps _3_ or _4_, then the build fails. > > === Format and licensing of the package patches > > -Patches are released under the same license as the software that is > -modified. > +Patches are released under the same license as the software they apply > +to. > > A message explaining what the patch does, and why it is needed, should > be added in the header commentary of the patch. > -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF