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Cc: Yahya Toubali <yahya@yahyatoubali.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: add SPDX license identifiers to RST
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Yahya Toubali <yahya@yahyatoubali.me> writes:

> Add SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 to RST documentation files
> that were missing it. This aligns with kernel documentation
> conventions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yahya Toubali <yahya@yahyatoubali.me>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst      | 1 +
>  Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst      | 2 ++
>  Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 1 +
>  Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst           | 1 +
>  Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst          | 1 +
>  Documentation/process/howto.rst              | 1 +
>  Documentation/sound/designs/index.rst        | 2 ++
>  7 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

In addition to Greg's comments, you'll want to split these out, since
they need to be judged by different maintainers.

Also, have you verified that GPL-2.0 is the intended license for all of
those files?  I wrote one of them and big parts of another, but you
haven't asked me...

Thanks,

jon