From 34ffcc393a8900fb412f2f549f350de098dc18a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jo-Philipp Wich Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:26:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] faq: rework company support A Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich --- faq.txt | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/faq.txt b/faq.txt index 107aa0a..21a6562 100644 --- a/faq.txt +++ b/faq.txt @@ -34,9 +34,11 @@ No, LEDE is not affiliated with any specific company or any industry organizatio == The company I work for uses LEDE and wants to support the project. What should we do? -The best support is that you allow and encourage your employees to contribute the changes you did internally back to the LEDE project. -If you are a chip vendor for example adding support for your chips to LEDE would be a nice. -This way others can also benefit from your changes and you reduce your maintenance cost, because you need less patches when using more recent versions of LEDE. +Companies can best support LEDE by upstreaming the required code to support their products, +any platform support code, patch submissions or even just detailed specifications are most appreciated. + +Upstreaming product support also benefits the company in the long run as ongoing maintenance and +porting effort decreases over time while the amount of internally required changes can be reduced. == Are there plans to license LEDE under a different License? -- 2.30.2