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author | Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de> | 2020-07-15 16:28:18 +0200 |
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committer | Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de> | 2020-07-15 16:28:18 +0200 |
commit | 19eab31f112d0327a78173bee7977f6e8faa09b0 (patch) | |
tree | d9b4b96b88e0f5942ebf4726e32759f83487aeb8 | |
parent | ee13e01ddb6bda8d5259c4ad7f974485ba691ecf (diff) | |
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license: include note about mere aggregation and licenses of managed software
Reported-by: Felicitas Jung <f.jung@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
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@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only -DistroKit is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0, -as given hereafter: +DistroKit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, +as given below. + +Note: DistroKit is a pre-configured build system which enables you to +generate a software distribution for embedded systems. DistroKit's +license only covers the build system rules in DistroKit itself, and +doesn't affect the license of managed software in any way, even if the +managed software might be distributed together with DistroKit. + +Moreover, using DistroKit as a PTXdist base layer for your embedded +system is an explicitely intended use case, and is considered as "mere +aggregation" as per section 2 of the GPL (see the FAQ at +<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#MereAggregation> +for more information.) GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |