# HG changeset patch # User "Yann E. MORIN" # Date 1183398327 0 # Node ID e9483f539bcec1e13a93c2402d42a399dc78248f # Parent 98c8e375a7ea2b8e00f06eb6be3399ce47623726 Rephrase the licensing of patches/ diff -r 98c8e375a7ea -r e9483f539bce COPYING --- a/COPYING Mon Jul 02 17:44:50 2007 +0000 +++ b/COPYING Mon Jul 02 17:45:27 2007 +0000 @@ -6,13 +6,17 @@ licenses.d/by-sa/deed.en (human-readable summary) licenses.d/by-sa/legalcode (legal code, the full license) -- Files found in patches/uClibc/*/ are available under the GNU Lesser General - Public License (LGPL), v2.1, to be found there: - licenses.d/lgpl.txt - -- Files found in patches/glibc/*/ are available under the GNU Lesser General - Public License (LGPL), v2.1, to be found there: - licenses.d/lgpl.txt +- 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/libfloat/*/*.patch: Seems to be some BSD-like license; see the + full source. + patches/*/*/*.patch not covered by any license above: + GPL v2 (some are GPL v2 or later, see the + full source). - Other files not covered by the above licenses, and not covered by an individual license specified in the file itself, or an accompanying file,