Rui Li <me@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thanks for your reminding. I ran the check patch script before sending > this patch. However, the original file Documentation/staging/xz.rst > seems not has SPDX-License-Identifier header. You cannot know what the license of the source file is, since it hasn't been declared there. What you *do* know, though, is that it must be GPLv2 compatible. Your translation can thus be strictly GPLv2. My suggestion in such cases would be to put: .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 into translations of documents that lack an SPDX line of their own. Thanks, jon