# HG changeset patch # User Paul Boddie # Date 1489925143 -3600 # Node ID f3f3aed1c055cfddee4a64fa54660dd05bd0b85c # Parent 5e4ceea5335174ac4ce3d1a8e92fa195c202e02f Added copyright notice guidelines. diff -r 5e4ceea53351 -r f3f3aed1c055 docs/COPYING.txt --- a/docs/COPYING.txt Fri Feb 17 00:01:18 2017 +0100 +++ b/docs/COPYING.txt Sun Mar 19 13:05:43 2017 +0100 @@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ To conclude, when producing unmodified versions of this work, you should make these materials available to recipients. When producing modified versions, you -should make the exact materials you used available to recipients. And you -should preserve the copyright and licensing notices present in this work -regardless of any modifications you make to the work. +should make the exact materials you used available to recipients. + +You should preserve the copyright and licensing notices present in this work +regardless of any modifications you make to the work. However, where a +copyright notice appears on the hardware itself (being analogous to a message +that a program might display to communicate such information to its users), you +may choose to extend the notice to take your modifications into account, or you +may choose to replace it with a reference to a resource providing all +applicable copyright and licensing information.