[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/2] docs/manual: add section about patch licensing

[Yann E. MORIN]

Luca, All,

On 2016-02-25 12:51 +0100, Luca Ceresoli spake thusly:
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
> Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Steve Calfee <stevecalfee at gmail.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> 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.

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