linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/22] docs: trace: ring-buffer-design.txt: convert to ReST format

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Message-ID: <4e00b2fa91f1f818de4658f2695d4b433852959d.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:48:10 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/22] docs: trace: ring-buffer-design.txt: convert to
 ReST format

On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 08:50 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> - Just like some media documents, this file is dual licensed
>   with GPL and GFDL. As right now the GFDL SPDX definition is
>   bogus (as it doesn't tell anything about invariant parts),
>   let's not use SPDX here. Let's use, instead, the same test
>   as we have on media.
[]
> diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.rst
> []
> +.. Or, alternatively,
> +..
> +.. b) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
> +..    document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
> +..    Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
> +..    Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
> +..    and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at
> +..    https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html

Use of a version 1.1 reference with a 1.2 link.

Perhaps the link should be:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.1.html

> +..
> +.. TODO: replace it to GPL-2.0 OR GFDL-1.2-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections

Is there some reason a new GFDL entry has not yet been added
to the LICENSES directory?