gen_initramfs: Release the copy_binaries function as public domain.

The copy_binaries function is explicitly released into the public domain to
encourage wide adoption and re-use.

This is to enable use in some cases of BSD and other licensing, and
specifically avoiding the need to be party to any contributor agreements.
Additionally, the code could be considered of trivial length in some regions.

Written by:
- Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> (complete rewrite)
- Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> (original concept)

Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f75e034fec33e45d6bbc227980b0b22093424c47..8490dc35d67bf7a3ee56b6e2aada285d3590d725 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Id$
 
+  14 Apr 2012; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> gen_initramfs.sh:
+  Release copy_binaries function as public domain.
+
   14 Apr 2012; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> gen_initramfs.sh:
   Handle other binary paths for LVM.
 

diff --git a/gen_initramfs.sh b/gen_initramfs.sh
index f178b2d51f93e077972e355fdaa6d0a041b16cb1..5bffbb04271193e1fba02899a789a3ee6da7ceff 100755 (executable)
--- a/gen_initramfs.sh
+++ b/gen_initramfs.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 
 CPIO_ARGS="--quiet -o -H newc"
 
+# The copy_binaries function is explicitly released into the public domain to
+# encourage wide adoption and re-use.
+# Written by: 
+# - Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> (complete rewrite)
+# - Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> (original concept)
+# Usage:
+# copy_binaries DESTDIR BINARIES...
 copy_binaries() {
        local destdir=$1
        shift