Re: [PATCH] docs/zh_CN: update maintainer/configure-git.rst translation

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org> writes:

> Upstream documented the common 'git tag -s' workflow and cleaned up
> unneeded RST markup. It briefly updated the automatic lore Link: hook
> for Git 2.41 and HTTPS, then removed that guidance because Link: tags
> should only point to useful additional information.
>
> Add a SPDX-License-Identifier.
>
> Remove a useless top-of-file label, as Jon always tries to do.
>
> Update the translation through commit 944df7a31452
> ("docs: update the guidance for Link: tags").
>
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
> ---
> Hi Jon, I added a SPDX-License-Identifier for this file while the
> original English one doesn't have one yet. Should I do that? / Is it
> "legal" to do so? , if XiangCheng would be happy with what I'm doing.

It's sort of an interesting case, actually.

We don't know what license the original contributor intended, so it is
hard to add an SPDX line to the original file.  That contributor hasn't
been seen in the community for a while, so it may or may not be easy to
track him down and ask.

A translation, though, is a derived product.  Since everything in the
kernel *can* be distributed under GPLv2, it is fair to say that your
work is GPLv2, so the result of the translation effort must be too.

That said, I think it's better to stick with the original where
possible.

Note, however, that I am *not* a lawyer, and that taking legal advice
from me is probably a bad idea :)

Thanks,

jon