COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files

2018-03-23T18:41:35Z

With the addition of SPDX patchset, the contents of COPYING file is now duplicated at two other files under LICENSE: LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note It is easy to check that the contents of the licence written on those files are identical with COPYING using: $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note|less Also, a new file was added, with describes how SPDX should work at the Kernel source files: Documentation/process/license-rules.rst Instead fo having it copying the contents of two files, and not even mentioning the third one, replace it by a file whose content points to the other tree files, preserving the Kernel's license. Adjust license-rules.rst accordingly. Please notice that this file preserves the Kernel license as is, without any changes. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses

2018-01-06T17:58:02Z

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 and Greg for review and editing and Jonas for the suggestions concerning the meta tags in the licenses files. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Jonas Oberg Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

kernel.git/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst, branch linux-4.19.y

COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files

Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses