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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2014-01-09 07:58:24 -0600 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-01-21 21:57:58 +0000 |
| commit | 78564304dc23b4312ee4f7a836a26ecdde88e11e (patch) | |
| tree | 6da410cbc9829c186c73473699b1dcc9f3904674 /documentation | |
| parent | 658761cd7c31e1fda3e601dc23c15493a402c334 (diff) | |
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dev-manual: Edits to the "Licensing" section.
Applied review comments to this section per Paul Eggleton.
Minor word changes.
(From yocto-docs rev: 5130559003778e3b613d3d480350d041dfd10fcd)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index c5ff3b2..3ee327c 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ <listitem><para><emphasis><filename>LICENSE</filename>:</emphasis> This variable specifies the license for the software. If you do not know the license under which the software - you are building is distributed, you can go to the + you are building is distributed, you should go to the source code and look for that information. Typical files containing this information include <filename>COPYING</filename>, @@ -1641,17 +1641,16 @@ <filename>README</filename> files. You could also find the information near the top of a source file. - The key is to find something that states the public - license needed for the software. For example, given a piece of software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2, you would set <filename>LICENSE</filename> as follows: <literallayout class='monospaced'> LICENSE = "GPLv2" </literallayout></para> - <para>The licenses you specify with - <filename>LICENSE</filename> be any name as long as - you do not use spaces. + <para>The licenses you specify within + <filename>LICENSE</filename> can have any name as long + as you do not use spaces, since spaces are used as + separators between license names. For standard licenses, use the names of the files in <filename>meta/files/common-licenses/</filename> or the <filename>SPDXLICENSEMAP</filename> flag names |
