From: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:06:25 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Adjust licensing policy on copy_binaries() after a chat with robbat2 X-Git-Tag: v3.4.31~11 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d31d1e53ff70f154fc998980cd2e941b3d5eda59;p=genkernel.git Adjust licensing policy on copy_binaries() after a chat with robbat2 --- diff --git a/gen_initramfs.sh b/gen_initramfs.sh index ca4f090..a7f8c1f 100755 --- a/gen_initramfs.sh +++ b/gen_initramfs.sh @@ -6,8 +6,12 @@ CPIO_ARGS="--quiet -o -H newc" # The copy_binaries function is explicitly released into the public domain to # encourage wide adoption and re-use. That means: # - You may use the code of copy_binaries() as Public domain outside of genkernel -# - Past and future changes to copy_binaries() still need to be licensable under -# <GPL v2 or later> to maintain license compatibility with genkernel itself +# - Contributions to this function are put into the Public Domain as well. +# +# On a side note: "Both public domain works and the simple license provided by +# CC0 are compatible with the GNU GPL." +# (from https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0) +# # Written by: # - Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org> (partly rewrite) # - Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> (complete rewrite)