docs/manual: no warranty on output of legal-info
authorYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Sat, 1 Oct 2016 15:26:32 +0000 (17:26 +0200)
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Mon, 3 Oct 2016 21:19:07 +0000 (23:19 +0200)
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" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
docs/manual/legal-notice.txt

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@@ -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