Skip to contentSkip to conversation

docs/manual: no warranty on output of legal-info

PATCH New Yann E. MORIN 2 participants 2 messages Oct 1, 2016 – Oct 3, 2016

lore
Share & tools
lore

Yann E. MORIN

author
#0 lore raw

PATCH v2 1/1 docs/manual: no warranty on output of legal-info

Explicitly state that there is no warranty about the accuracy of the content of the output of 'make legal-info'.

Signed-off-by "Yann E. MORIN" <[email protected]>
Cc Arnout Vandecappelle <[email protected]>
Cc Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]>
Acked-by Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <[email protected]>
Acked-by Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]>

---
Changes v1 -> v2:
- reword (Arnout, Luca)
- carry the ACKs from Arnout and Luca since I did exactly what they suggested and they both agreed to each other's reviews.

---
 docs/manual/legal-notice.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
docs/manual/legal-notice.txt +10 -0
index 7c19bc3..c9b5211 100644
@@ -73,6 +73,16 @@ distribution is required).
 When you run +make legal-info+, Buildroot produces warnings in the +README+
 file to inform you of relevant material that could not be saved.
 
+Finally, keep in mind that the output of +make legal-info+ is based on
+declarative statements in each of the packages recipes. The Buildroot
+developers try to do their best to keep those declarative statements as
+accurate as possible, to the best of their knowledge. However, it is very
+well possible that those declarative statements are not all fully accurate
+nor exhaustive. You (or your legal department) _have_ to check the output
+of +make legal-info+ before using it as your own compliance delivery. See
+the _NO WARRANTY_ clauses (clauses 11 and 12) in the +COPYING+ file at the
+root of the Buildroot distribution.
+
 [[legal-info-list-licenses]]
 === License abbreviations
Signature · 1 line
2.7.4
Applied
#1 lore raw

PATCH v2 1/1 docs/manual: no warranty on output of legal-info

Hello,

Quoted 9 lines · Yann E. MORIN

Explicitly state that there is no warranty about the accuracy of the content of the output of 'make legal-info'.

Signed-off-by "Yann E. MORIN" <[email protected]>
Cc Arnout Vandecappelle <[email protected]>
Cc Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]>
Acked-by Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <[email protected]>
Acked-by Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]>
Quoted 8 lines

---
Changes v1 -> v2:
- reword (Arnout, Luca)
- carry the ACKs from Arnout and Luca since I did exactly what they suggested and they both agreed to each other's reviews.

---
 docs/manual/legal-notice.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas

Signature · 3 lines
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com