linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] LICENSE: add GFDL deprecated licenses

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Date:   Mon, 7 Sep 2020 15:18:51 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] LICENSE: add GFDL deprecated licenses

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 03:46:51PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> There are some files under Documentation which uses
> deprecated versions of GNU Free Documentation License, on
> both versions 1.1 and 1.2.
> 
> On all cases, the license is with no Invariant Sections,
> Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts.
> 
> Add the text file for them, as we'll start using SPDX
> for those.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
> ---
>  LICENSES/deprecated/GFDL-1.1 | 355 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  LICENSES/deprecated/GFDL-1.2 | 397 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 752 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/deprecated/GFDL-1.1
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/deprecated/GFDL-1.2
> 
> diff --git a/LICENSES/deprecated/GFDL-1.1 b/LICENSES/deprecated/GFDL-1.1
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a03f60403947
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/LICENSES/deprecated/GFDL-1.1
> @@ -0,0 +1,355 @@
> +                GNU Free Documentation License
> +                   Version 1.1, March 2000

<snip>

Please follow the format of other licenses in the tree and add the
correct headers to them that include things like:
	Valid-License-Identifier
	SPDX_URL
	Usage-Guide

and other things like that so we can properly track these things.

thanks,

greg k-h