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

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:18:22 +0100
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/license-rules.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,310 @@
> +Linux kernel licensing rules
> +============================
> +
> +The Linux Kernel is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public
> +License version 2 only (GPL-2.0), as published by the Free Software
> +Foundation, and provided in the COPYING file.  This documentation file is

One other thing that occurred to me is that documentation files, too,
are copyrightable and should have license identifiers.  So maybe the
documentation on these identifiers should set a good example :)  The RST
version would be:

	.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

I'll try to find some time to start fixing up Documentation/ in general.

jon