linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] Docs/hwmon/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier

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Message-ID: <87k0124vd9.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:44:02 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] Docs/hwmon/index: Add missing SPDX License
 Identifier

Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 09:36:46PM +0000, SeongJae Park wrote:
>> Add missing SPDX License Identifier for hwmon documentation index file.
>> 
>
> I do not feel comfortable accepting this change without confirmation
> that changing the license from <none> to an explicit <GPL v2.0> is
> legally acceptable.

As with many of these, this file was initially added by Mauro (added to
CC).  Mauro, can you confirm that GPLv2 was your intention for these
index.rst files?  That would clear the path for a lot of these patches.

Thanks,

jon