Re: [patch V2 00/11] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

Sorry, I was too stupid to fixup Kate's e-mail address after Joe pointed it
out. My apologies. Please remove 'kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' from the CC
list and replace it with 'kstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

/me goes off to rumage for brown paperbags

> This is the second version of the licensing rules documentation.
> 
> Changes since v1 [1]:
> 
>  - Addressing the review comments from Jon, Joe and Jonas:
> 
>    - Moved the documentation file into Documentation/process, but kept the
>      topic entry in the top level index file so it stands out. (Joe)
> 
>    - Changed the license file metatags so they are not overloading
>      SPDX-License-Identifier (Jonas)
> 
>    - Cleaned up the inconsistencies in the document (Jon, Joe)
> 
>    - Added the comment style fior .rst files (Jon)
> 
>  - Added a few more links and cursed restructured text to make it render
>    halfways sensible.
> 
>  - Added the license files for the SPDX tags which are already in tree and
>    moved GPL-1.0 to the 'other' directory as it really does not belong into
>    the preferrred category.
> 
>  - Removed the Reviewed-by tags as they not longer apply. 
> 
> Please go over it with a fine comb again. I'm sure that I screwed up
> something on the way, but me staring more at it doesn't help.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who provided input!
> 
> It turned out that the original approach was incidentaly close to what the
> FSFE REUSE initiative docuemented and I think we are now nearing the point
> where we can wear the REUSE sticker if Jonas does not find any other holes
> in it. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
> 
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171112191821.240484206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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