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authorSimon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>2012-11-16 04:54:19 +0000
committerPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>2012-11-16 22:24:42 +0100
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manual: minor tweaks
Minor grammatical and spelling tweaks to the manual content. Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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@@ -12,17 +12,18 @@ All of the end products of Buildroot (toolchain, root filesystem, kernel,
bootloaders) contain opensource software, released under various licenses.
Using opensource software gives you the freedom to build rich embedded
-systems choosing from a wide range of packages, but also gives some
+systems, choosing from a wide range of packages, but also imposes some
obligations that you must know and honour.
Some licenses require you to publish the license text in the documentation of
-your product. Other require you to redistribute the source code of the
+your product. Others require you to redistribute the source code of the
software to those that receive your product.
-The exact requirements of each license is documented in each package, and it is
-your (or your legal office's) responsibility to comply with these requirements.
+The exact requirements of each license are documented in each package, and
+it is your responsibility (or that of your legal office) to comply with those
+requirements.
To make this easier for you, Buildroot can collect for you some material you
-will probably need. To produce this material, after you configured Buildroot
-with +make menuconfig+, +make xconfig+ or +make gconfig+, run:
+will probably need. To produce this material, after you have configured
+Buildroot with +make menuconfig+, +make xconfig+ or +make gconfig+, run:
--------------------
make legal-info
@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ There you will find:
Buildroot sources and are not duplicated in the +sources/+ subdirectory.
* A manifest file listing the configured packages, their version, license and
related information.
- Some of these information might be not defined in Buildroot; in this case
- they are clearly marked as "unknown" or similar.
+ Some of this information might not be defined in Buildroot; such items are
+ clearly marked as "unknown" or similar.
* A +licenses/+ subdirectory, which contains the license text of packages.
If the license file(s) are not defined in Buildroot, the file is not produced
and a warning in the +README+ indicates this.
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ There you will find:
Please note that the aim of the +legal-info+ feature of Buildroot is to
produce all the material that is somehow relevant for legal compliance with the
package licenses. Buildroot does not try to produce the exact material that
-you must somehow make public. It does surely produce some more material than is
+you must somehow make public. Certainly, more material is produced than is
needed for a strict legal compliance. For example, it produces the source code
for packages released under BSD-like licenses, that you might not want to
redistribute in source form.
@@ -132,5 +133,5 @@ Buildroot is part of the 'scripts used to control compilation and
installation of the executable', and as such it is considered part of the
material that must be redistributed.
-Keep in mind this is only the Buildroot developers' opinion, and you should
-consult your legal department or lawyer in case of any doubt.
+Keep in mind that this is only the Buildroot developers' opinion, and you
+should consult your legal department or lawyer in case of any doubt.