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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Ilai Levin <levinilai972@gmail.com>
Cc: skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ilai Levin <levinilai972@gmail.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: driver-api: eisa: add SPDX license identifier
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:57:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871pfzmedp.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260428124555.102039-1-levinilai972@gmail.com>

Ilai Levin <levinilai972@gmail.com> writes:

> Add the missing SPDX-License-Identifier tag to the eisa.rst
> documentation file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilai Levin <levinilai972@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst
> index 3563e5f7e..e98b21b60 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst
> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +

This is probably just fine, but it's worth asking the original author
(copied) whether that was the intent; we can't just slap an arbitrary
license onto the work of others.

(One could also ask whether we need this document at all in 2026, but
that is a separate question...:)

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-28 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-28 12:45 [PATCH] docs: driver-api: eisa: add SPDX license identifier Ilai Levin
2026-04-28 12:57 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2026-04-28 13:26   ` Marc Zyngier
2026-04-28 13:33     ` Ilai Levin
2026-04-28 13:45       ` Jonathan Corbet

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