Clarify applicable licensing terms in COPYING file.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index f616ab9..44d1983 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
- NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover the so-called "standalone"
+ U-Boot is Free Software. It is copyrighted by Wolfgang Denk and
+many others who contributed code (see the actual source code for
+details). You can redistribute U-Boot and/or modify it under the
+terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation. Most of it can also be distributed,
+at your option, under any later version of the GNU General Public
+License -- see individual files for exceptions.
+
+ NOTE! This license does *not* cover the so-called "standalone"
applications that use U-Boot services by means of the jump table
provided by U-Boot exactly for this purpose - this is merely
considered normal use of U-Boot, and does *not* fall under the