Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: add SPDX license identifiers to RST files

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Wed Jul 22 2026 - 12:53:09 EST


Yahya Toubali <yahya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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