Commit 8ab41aed authored Feb 01, 2016 by Luca Ceresoli Committed by Peter Korsgaard Feb 25, 2016

docs/manual: slightly clarify patch licensing



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 <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

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docs/manual/patch-policy.txt

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		=== 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.