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diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index 8cceae103..a5f1a917a 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@
Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with systemd; If not, see .
-->
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
ID=centos an
assignment of ID_LIKE="rhel
fedora" would be
- appropriate. For an operating systemd
+ appropriate. For an operating system
with ID=ubuntu an
assignment of
ID_LIKE=debian is
@@ -313,6 +313,13 @@
accommodate for rolling releases. In this case VERSION
and VERSION_ID may be unset. Applications should not
rely on these fields to be set.
+
+ Operating system vendors may extend the file
+ format and introduce new fields. It is highly
+ recommended to prefix new fields with an OS specific
+ name in order to avoid name clashes. Applications
+ reading this file must ignore unknown fields. Example:
+ DEBIAN_BTS="debbugs://bugs.debian.org/"