<emphasis>complete</emphasis> (bootable) filesystem trees. It
has no built-in knowledge of how a given filesystem tree was
generated or the origin of individual files, or dependencies,
- descriptions of individual components.
+ descriptions of individual components. This means that, for
+ example, if you are distributing software which is licensed
+ under the GNU General Public License, the burden lies with the
+ tool generating these filesystem trees to ensure sufficent
+ metadata is included for compliance.
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<para>
The OSTree core emphasizes replicating read-only OS trees via