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Joachim WibergandTobias Waldekranz
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The following changes have been made to condense and simplify the leading text in the README. Tested with Grip to verify that the first paragraph flows nicely to the left to the fine new logo. This allows us to use the space more efficiently and the reader does not have to scroll so long before reaching relevant content. - Right-align logo, and shrink it a bit, to fit text to the left - Move topic links to a foldout at the top - Move boring licensing stuff to separate docment Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Origin & Licensing
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Infix is entirely built on Open Source components (packages). Most of
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them, as well as the build system with its helper scripts and tools, is
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from [Buildroot][1], which is distributed under the terms of the GNU
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General Public License (GPL). See the file COPYING for details.
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Some files in Buildroot contain a different license statement. Those
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files are licensed under the license contained in the file itself.
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Buildroot and Infix also bundle patch files, which are applied to the
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sources of the various packages. Those patches are not covered by the
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license of Buildroot or Infix. Instead, they are covered by the license
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of the software to which the patches are applied. When said software is
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available under multiple licenses, the patches are only provided under
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the publicly accessible licenses.
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Infix releases include the license information covering all Open Source
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packages. This is extracted automatically at build time using the tool
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`make legal-info`. Any proprietary software built on top of Infix, or
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Buildroot, would need separate auditing to ensure it does not link with
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any GPL[^2] licensed library.
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[^2]: Infix image builds use GNU libc (GLIBC) which is covered by the
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[LGPL][8]. The LGPL *does allow* proprietary software, as long as
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said software is linking dynamically, [not statically][5], to GLIBC.
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[1]: https://buildroot.org/
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[2]: https://www.sysrepo.org/
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[5]: https://lwn.net/Articles/117972/
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[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License
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