Re: [patch 1/7] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 20:18 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Add a file to the Documentation directory to describe how file licenses
> should be described in all kernel files, using the SPDX identifier, as well
> as where all licenses should be in the kernel source tree for people to
> refer to (LICENSES/).
> 
> Thanks to Kate, Philippe and Greg for review and editing!
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> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/license-rules.rst
[]
> +The common way of expressing the license of a source file is to add the
> +matching boiler plate text into the top comment of the file.  Due to
> +formatting, typos etc.  These "boiler plates" are hard to validate for
> +tools, which are used in the context of license compliance.

There is bad sentence construction here and it is a
little difficult to parse what is intended.

"These" should not be capitalized.

This SPDX info should also be place in the Documentation/process
content somewhere.