On 03/28/2018 12:04 AM, Martin Wilck wrote: > On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 20:28 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> Source directly from: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2 >> .0.txt >> >> Cc: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> > > Do you plan to add a README.COPYING or similar explaining which license > applies to what part of the code? No, I do not. It should be done by the current maintainer and/or files copyright owners. Currently the best and standard way is to use "SPDX License Identifier", since many of the Linux Foundation projects are starting to employ it: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst#n35 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel