From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta0.migadu.com (out-32.mta0.migadu.com [91.218.175.32]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50EF4316905 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.32 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1787578344; cv=none; b=QqTGoM8wzFh4vXafd3H3IL5K+/z68Q9Jr57KqXQFirBGw++ynVTAdsR4vwxcLqWEL/ALd4ixYB3s7xDuPwPe7iW3eJy91BPjc3M+cuPqy9jOUIkti+lSykphLIhfbYIadch3OXLIup+cB9g+DKXwyr9VNkm5fUeytfU5SBu7T4I= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1787578344; c=relaxed/simple; bh=NVfxWOT6lNtXvj7cdzSc8CbIyf0ML0V992ZmlDzOX+Y=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=pLtmOPnTKloWgpcu8aAaUYNSRSNefHEb91d9KYktFLqLMjywdnwt3Hf5XBAo61/ahG4BoGRewsWN6FnOhEAp/TlSNsGCeU+zXbVn9cQQh6Hu64lcgdpXYhqyqtiozM9B2KigFSKmYbCX4FInOAveeDrIXhVHVFAdCp4jlRdPBJ0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=wyuan.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=wyuan.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=wyuan.org header.i=@wyuan.org header.b=kbKCftDn; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.32 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=wyuan.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=wyuan.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=wyuan.org header.i=@wyuan.org header.b="kbKCftDn" X-Envelope-To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha256; bh=NVfxWOT6lNtXvj7cdzSc8CbIyf0ML0V992ZmlDzOX+Y=; c=simple/simple; d=wyuan.org; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=key1; t=1787578335; v=1; x=1788183135; b=kbKCftDndziROw3/WTIsA3r09i50srbkOsSgzW+QJI7DKPy0y2dXzem0TWnXqnIFIkJPJLCd LRUaFNdU4UY3KU3qBRiFvwOZXk9fqHEHPPu+3n0DTam/zSphtRBRuv0FSt/+NjlazMmpjfGbclq x+ucM7Ir5Szb79tWEfu64noSEkbv7dIjetZ6z8CxPh8TXwrseyFSlWQvWNmBshyDSiIH+slEnNz y4ZjyXqWv8Yt7i+0ARRN5cVtmklycV69+Qn82vLRdH8nTaXADQjnHtdvBf9Wv59U/P0Q2PN7r4n MhdsBCNA413A9Hmmn6Vr5YtBYcNxciClr8NhTxC/UNOqg== X-Envelope-To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Received: from localhost (117.176.242.187) by smtp.migadu.com with ESMTPS id fa9b8b22e66c8008; Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:32:15 +0000 X-Mizu-Trace-ID: fa9b8b22e66c8008 X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:32:11 +0800 From: Weijie Yuan To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Alex Shi , Yanteng Si , Dongliang Mu , Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , Wu XiangCheng , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/zh_CN: update maintainer/configure-git.rst translation Message-ID: References: <20260823-configure-git-v1-1-3c65eefcc585@wyuan.org> <87y0dv1wp3.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y0dv1wp3.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 07:20:56AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Weijie Yuan 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 > > --- > > 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. Yes, this is exactly what I'm thinking about. > That said, I think it's better to stick with the original where > possible. OK, agreed. Will do that. > Note, however, that I am *not* a lawyer, and that taking legal advice > from me is probably a bad idea :) Aha, yes. ;) Then I'd better be cautious. Thanks!