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Yegor Yefremov 8639afc6f0 libmodbus: bump version and change download location
The license of libmodbus is LGPL v2.1 or later and the
licence of programs in tests directory is GPL v3. So
specify only LGPL v2.1.

Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-11-11 00:56:37 +01:00
arch avr32: pass target arch to gcc 2013-11-06 22:37:42 +01:00
board configs: rename rpi_defconfig for consistency 2013-11-10 22:18:52 +01:00
boot linux/uboot: line-up repository-related configuration options 2013-10-27 08:09:01 +01:00
configs configs: rename rpi_defconfig for consistency 2013-11-10 22:18:52 +01:00
docs manual: add some info on the POST_RSYNC hook 2013-11-11 00:12:05 +01:00
fs uboot-tools: factor out common mkimage infrastructure 2013-11-11 00:37:03 +01:00
linux uboot-tools: factor out common mkimage infrastructure 2013-11-11 00:37:03 +01:00
package libmodbus: bump version and change download location 2013-11-11 00:56:37 +01:00
support Makefile: fix out-of-tree builds with multiple targets with 'all' 2013-11-06 23:24:47 +01:00
system Config.in files: add missing dependencies to toolchain option comments 2013-11-10 23:59:57 +01:00
toolchain toolchain-external: factorize regular expressions 2013-11-11 00:26:53 +01:00
.defconfig buildroot: get rid of s390 support 2009-01-12 14:36:14 +00:00
.gitignore update gitignore 2013-05-04 12:41:55 +02:00
CHANGES Update for 2013.08 2013-08-31 00:33:13 +02:00
Config.in toolchain: refactor Stack Smashing Protection support 2013-09-15 23:02:57 +02:00
Config.in.legacy Config.in.legacy: select BR2_LEGACY for module-init-tools legacy option 2013-11-10 12:34:52 +01:00
COPYING clarify license and fix website license link 2009-05-08 09:29:41 +02:00
Makefile infra: centralize rsync exclude list for VCS files 2013-11-11 00:10:58 +01:00
Makefile.legacy legacy: add error target for host-pkg-config 2012-11-30 12:07:09 -08:00

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