Commit a98442f2 authored by Thomas De Schampheleire's avatar Thomas De Schampheleire Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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legal info: update documentation with split target/host output 



Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSamuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
parent 7f809ca1

docs/manual/legal-notice.txt

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@@ -39,16 +39,19 @@ There you will find: 
* +buildroot.config+: this is the Buildroot configuration file that is usually

  produced with +make menuconfig+, and which is necessary to reproduce the

  build.

* The source code for all packages; this is saved in the +sources/+

  subdirectory (except for proprietary packages, whose source code is not

  saved);

  patches applied to some packages by Buildroot are distributed with the

  Buildroot sources and are not duplicated in the +sources/+ subdirectory.

* A manifest file listing the configured packages, their version, license and

  related information.

* The source code for all packages; this is saved in the +sources/+ and

  +host-sources/+ subdirectories for target and host packages respectively.

  The source code for packages that set +<PKG>_REDISTRIBUTE = NO+ will not be

  saved.

  Patches applied to some packages by Buildroot are distributed with the

  Buildroot sources and are not duplicated in the +sources/+ and +host-sources/+

  subdirectories.

* A manifest file (one for host and one for target packages) listing the

  configured packages, their version, license and related information.

  Some of this information might not be defined in Buildroot; such items are

  marked as "unknown".

* A +licenses/+ subdirectory, which contains the license text of packages.

* The license texts of all packages, in the +licenses/+ and +host-licenses/+

  subdirectories for target and host packages respectively.

  If the license file(s) are not defined in Buildroot, the file is not produced

  and a warning in the +README+ indicates this.
@@ -72,7 +75,7 @@ License abbreviations 
---------------------



Here is a list of the licenses that are most widely used by packages in

Buildroot, with the name used in the manifest file:

Buildroot, with the name used in the manifest files:



* `GPLv2`:

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html[