From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:26:24 +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 , Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files Message-ID: <20180323102624.GA10292@kroah.com> References: <20180323095106.23108-1-mchehab@s-opensource.com> <20180323095106.23108-2-mchehab@s-opensource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180323095106.23108-2-mchehab@s-opensource.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 06:51:05AM -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 > --- > > Version 2: > - Did some text changes at license-rules.rst, based on Matthew > Wilcox review. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman