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Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:17:17 +0000 (23:17 +0100)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:58:02 +0000 (10:58 -0700)
commitaa19a176df95d6e49295d6ff77f7967224c71761
tree64382f175d4a029fda0cf3558c6cee35925b19c8
parent85afe608f5f3c10134e94c8aa87d9f9eecd81622
Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses

Add a file to the Documentation directory to describe how file licenses
should be described in all kernel files, using the SPDX identifier, as well
as where all licenses should be in the kernel source tree for people to
refer to (LICENSES/).

Thanks to Kate and Greg for review and editing and Jonas for the
suggestions concerning the meta tags in the licenses files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/index.rst
Documentation/process/license-rules.rst [new file with mode: 0644]