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docs: libtool patches are not handled by legal-info infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
[Thomas: slightly reword with Yann's suggestion.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Romain Naour 7 years ago
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      support/legal-info/README.header

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   Patches that were applied are also saved, along with a file named +series+
   that lists the patches in the order they were applied. Patches are under the
   same license as the files that they modify.
+  Note: Buildroot applies additional patches to Libtool scripts of
+  autotools-based packages. These patches can be found under
+  +support/libtool+ in the Buildroot source and, due to technical
+  limitations, are not saved with the package sources. You may need to
+  collect them manually.
 * A manifest file (one for host and one for target packages) listing the
   configured packages, their version, license and related information.
   Some of this information might not be defined in Buildroot; such items are

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@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ This material is composed of the following items.
    with a file named 'series' that lists the patches in the order they were
    applied. Patches are under the same license as the files that they modify
    in the original package.
+   Note: Buildroot applies additional patches to Libtool scripts of
+   autotools-based packages. These patches can be found under
+   support/libtool in the Buildroot source and, due to technical
+   limitations, are not saved with the package sources. You may need
+   to collect them manually.
  * A manifest file listing the configured packages and related information.
  * The license text of the packages; they have been saved in the licenses/
    subdirectory.