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From: Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how
 to properly identify file licenses
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Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>, Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>, Rob Herring <rob.herring@linaro.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>

Hi,

> One other thing that occurred to me is that documentation files, too,
> are copyrightable and should have license identifiers.

Would it make sense to take an incremental approach to this? Get the
source code and identifiers worked on by Thomas et al through first, then
think about and fix up potential other issues, like the top level COPYING
file, or documentation :-)

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