On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 06:51:05AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > With the addition of SPDX patchset, the contents of COPYING file > is now duplicated at two other files under LICENSE: > LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 > LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note > > It is easy to check that the contents of the licence written on > those files are identical with COPYING using: > > $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 > $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note|less > > Also, a new file was added, with describes how SPDX should work at > the Kernel source files: > Documentation/process/license-rules.rst > > Instead fo having it copying the contents of two files, and not > even mentioning the third one, replace it by a file whose content > points to the other tree files, preserving the Kernel's license. > > Adjust license-rules.rst accordingly. > > Please notice that this file preserves the Kernel license as > is, without any changes. > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Version 2: > - Did some text changes at license-rules.rst, based on Matthew > Wilcox review. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
