[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Clarify applicable licensing terms in COPYING file.

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Dec 18 22:00:41 CET 2010


Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
---
v2:	Rephrase as suggested by Scott Wood in
	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/71743/focus=71761

 COPYING |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index f616ab9..44d1983 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-  NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover the so-called "standalone"
+  U-Boot is Free Software.  It is copyrighted by Wolfgang Denk and
+many others who contributed code (see the actual source code for
+details).  You can redistribute U-Boot and/or modify it under the
+terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation.  Most of it can also be distributed,
+at your option, under any later version of the GNU General Public
+License -- see individual files for exceptions.
+
+  NOTE! This license does *not* cover the so-called "standalone"
 applications that use U-Boot services by means of the jump table
 provided by U-Boot exactly for this purpose - this is merely
 considered normal use of U-Boot, and does *not* fall under the
-- 
1.7.3.3



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