From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:53:58 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/5] COPYING: add exception about patch licensing In-Reply-To: <8737shxdjv.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1454365196-26319-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <1454365196-26319-4-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <20160203230208.GB3428@free.fr> <56BBBB2A.1060706@mind.be> <56C750A1.5050908@lucaceresoli.net> <8737shxdjv.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <56CEEB56.3040303@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Peter, On 25/02/2016 11:57, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli writes: > > Hi, > > > Here's what I've been able to come up with so far. It's basically: > > - the sum of the present thread, plus > > - a reduced and modified version of the preamble suggested in the > > GNU GPL itself (section "How to Apply These Terms to Your New > > Programs"), plus > > - the statement that BR is GPLv2+ except where differently stated, > > as Arnout suggested. > > > I'm sure this needs further discussion and improvements. > > > -------------------------8<---------------------- > > > 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. > > This sounds good to me. Do anyone disagree or can this be committed to > master? Given your approval I just sent v3 with the above text as-is, so anybody can formally Ack/Nack and you can apply it without manual copy-pasting. -- Luca