Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Convert the remaining text files to ReST and add SPDX for GFDL

Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-06-23T13:37:26Z

Hi Kate,

Em Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:58:55 -0500
Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> escreveu:

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:53 AM Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > The main goal of this series is to finish the ReST conversion. After this
> > series, we have just those files still in plain old format:
> >
> > - Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
> > - Documentation/atomic_bitops.txt
> > - Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> > - Documentation/atomic_t.txt
> > - Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
> > - Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt
> > - Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/README
> >
> > PS.: I'm using a script to remove false-positives and ignore non-converted
> > translated files.
> >
> > It is worth to mention that this fseries contain licenses for the two
> > GFDL licenses used within the Kernel: GFDL-1.1+ and GFDL-1.2.
> >
> > Those licenses are the result of long discussions with the SPDX legal
> > team, and are part of this commit, to be added for the future
> > SPDX 3.10 version:
> > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pull/1048/commits/f695d2ac65230d0f4161ba58fff2f9d87bb5a053
> >
> > Mauro Carvalho Chehab (9):
> > docs: dt: convert booting-without-of.txt to ReST format
> > LICENSES: add GFDL licenses
> > media: docs: use SPDX GFDL-1.1-or-later-no-invariants
>
> The identifier "GFDL-1.1-or-later-no-invariants" isn't following expected
> construction (or-later and -only at the end) and the pull request is
> still under
> discussion on the SPDX license list, so please hold off on applying this
> until the correct identifier is figured out there.

Thanks for checking this. I assumed that the discussions on SPDX were
finished. For now, I'll keep using a license text at the Kernel
(on media and on another file dual-licensed GPL and GFDL).

I'm keeping the patches changing the license on a temp branch. I'll
re-submit them once the patch gets merged at SPDX specs tree.

Btw, another file using both GPL and GFDL was just added via the
media tree[1]. I need to remember that when re-submitting this one,
as otherwise it would be a left-over.

[1] Due to historic reasons, media userspace API is licensed under
GFDL. We're using a dual-license model for newer files at the
media uAPI book.

Thanks!
Mauro