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COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:51:05 +0000 (06:51 -0300)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:41:35 +0000 (12:41 -0600)
commit88de995ccf48acaf4eced7ef485118b6bc65b880
tree7cb0a7ed0cd4de52a6ef13f64b8a7c32eb4abc69
parentaebb47d4e7a9c5a4f456aa0b2e1f7d612d1c78ba
COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files

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@s-opensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
COPYING.new [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/process/license-rules.rst