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Clarify licensing issues.

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Yann E. MORIN" 2007-08-15 21:22:28 +00:00
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@ -7,14 +7,20 @@ the following terms.
licenses.d/by-sa/legalcode (legal code, the full license)
- Files found in patches/*/ are available under the same license as the
software they apply to.
As a rule of thumb:
patches/uClibc/*/*.patch : available under the LGPL v2.1
patches/glibc/*/*.patch : ditto
patches/dmalloc/*/*.patch : ditto
patches/*/*/*.patch not covered by any license above:
GPL v2 (some are GPL v2 or later, see the
full source).
upstream software they apply to.
That means that you can't use those patches if you were licensed the
software under a specific license which is not the one the software is
commonly available under.
As an example, if you ever managed to get the Linux kernel under a license
other than the GPLv2, you are not allowed to use the Linux kernel patches
coming with crosstool-NG, as those are available under the GPLv2, which is
the license the Linux kernel is most commonly available under.
As a convenience, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) v2.1 (for the
glibc, uClibc, and some other libraries) is available there:
licenses.d/lgpl.txt
- Other files not covered by the above licenses, and not covered by an
individual license specified in the file itself, or an accompanying file,