From aa19a176df95d6e49295d6ff77f7967224c71761 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 23:17:17 +0100 Subject: Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses 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 --- Documentation/index.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/index.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst index a4fb34dddcf3..ef5080cbf009 100644 --- a/Documentation/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/index.rst @@ -13,6 +13,18 @@ documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if you want to help out. +Licensing documentation +----------------------- + +The following describes the license of the Linux kernel source code +(GPLv2), how to properly mark the license of individual files in the source +tree, as well as links to the full license text. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + process/license-rules.rst + User-oriented documentation --------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b