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Unless otherwise stated in individual files, this work is licensed to you under
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the following terms.
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- Files in docs/ are available under the Creative Commons Attribution, Share
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Alike (by-sa), v2.5, to be found there:
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licenses.d/by-sa/deed.en (human-readable summary)
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licenses.d/by-sa/legalcode (legal code, the full license)
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- Files found in patches/*/ are available under the same license as the
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upstream software they apply to.
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That means that you can't use those patches if you were licensed the
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software under a specific license which is not the one the software is
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commonly available under.
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As an example, if you ever managed to get the Linux kernel under a license
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other than the GPLv2, you are not allowed to use the Linux kernel patches
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coming with crosstool-NG, as those are available under the GPLv2, which is
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the license the Linux kernel is most commonly available under.
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As a convenience, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) v2.1 (for the
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patches against glibc, uClibc, and some other libraries) is available there:
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licenses.d/lgpl.txt
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- Other files not covered by the above licenses, and not covered by an
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individual license specified in the file itself, or an accompanying file,
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are available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), v2, to be found
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here:
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licenses.d/gpl.txt
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- Also, I want to clarify one point. If you build a toolchain with crosstool-NG
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and you happen to sell, deliver, or otherwise publish this toolchain to a
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third party, I consider crosstool-NG as being part of the sources needed to
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rebuild the afore-mentioned toolchain, alongside with all other source code
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that third party is otherwise entitled to receive, due to other licenses of
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the different components. See licenses.d/gpl.txt, section 3, which reads:
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> For an executable work, complete source code means [...], plus the
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> scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
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In short: crosstool-NG is the part refered to as "the scripts to control
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compilation and installation of the executable", it being the toolchain in
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our case; and as such you must make it available, in conformance to the
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GPLv2, see above.
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Also, if you have local patches that you apply to the different components
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(either manualy, or by instructing crosstool-NG to do so), you will have to
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make those patches available alongside with your toolchain, to comply with
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the licenses of the components impacted by your patches.
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