From 19eab31f112d0327a78173bee7977f6e8faa09b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland Hieber Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:28:18 +0200 Subject: license: include note about mere aggregation and licenses of managed software Reported-by: Felicitas Jung Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber --- LICENSE | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'LICENSE') diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index f6def74..668fa10 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -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 + +for more information.) GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE -- cgit v1.2.3