Re: [patch V3 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:48:57 +0100 (CET)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > +The following describes the license of the Linux kernel source code
> > > +(GPLv2), how to properly mark the license of individual files in the source
> > > +tree, as well as links to the full license text.
> > > +
> > > +.. toctree::
> > > +   :maxdepth: 2
> > > +
> > > +   process/license-rules.rst
> > > +  
> > 
> > I'll confess that I'm not convinced that information on license identifiers
> > is the very first thing readers should encounter when entering the kernel's
> > documentation.  But I'll not quibble about it for now, we can always move
> > it later :)  
> 
> Any suggestions for a better place?

I'd put it into Documentation/process/index.rst.  That is where we have
put the rest of that kind of information - stuff that people who want to
do kernel development need to know.

Other than that quibble, V4 looks good to me; toss in a

	Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>

if you like.

Thanks,

jon