From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:44:52 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Jonathan Corbet , LKML , Linux-doc , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Thomas Gleixner , Jonas Oberg , Linus Torvalds , Philippe Ombredanne , Kate Stewart Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files Message-ID: <20180322104452.GA4570@kroah.com> References: <20180322095414.24019-1-mchehab@s-opensource.com> <20180322095414.24019-2-mchehab@s-opensource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180322095414.24019-2-mchehab@s-opensource.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 06:54:13AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > With the addition of SPDX patchset, the contents of COPYING file > is now duplicated at two other files under LICENSE: > LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 > LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note > > It is easy to check that the contents of the licence written on > those files are identical with COPYING using: > > $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 > $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note|less > > Also, a new file was added, with describes how SPDX should work at > the Kernel source files: > Documentation/process/license-rules.rst > > Instead fo having it copying the contents of two files, and not > even mentioning the third one, replace it by a file whose content > points to the other tree files, preserving the Kernel's license. > > Adjust license-rules.rst accordingly. > > Please notice that this file preserves the Kernel license as > is, without any changes. > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman