Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Docs: Add missing SPDX license identifiers of

[Jonathan Corbet]

SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Some subsystem documents are missing SPDX license identifiers on index
> files.  This patchset adds those.

Documentation/ is far behind on the SPDX front, and I'm all in favor of
fixing that.  I do worry, though, about sticking license declarations
onto files that did not previously have them; do we know what the
original contributor's intent was?

> Changes from v1
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230114194741.115855-2-sj@xxxxxxxxxx/)
> - Separate from index file content changes
> - Separate patch for each subsystem doc (Alex Deucher)
> - Use MIT license for gpu (Alex Deucher)
>
> SeongJae Park (8):
>   Docs/crypto/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/driver-api/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/gpu/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/hwmon/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/input/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/mm/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/scheduler/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/sound/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>
>  Documentation/crypto/index.rst     | 2 ++
>  Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 2 ++

I added this one, and GPLv2 is fine there.

>  Documentation/gpu/index.rst        | 2 ++
>  Documentation/hwmon/index.rst      | 2 ++
>  Documentation/input/index.rst      | 2 ++
>  Documentation/mm/index.rst         | 2 ++
>  Documentation/scheduler/index.rst  | 2 ++
>  Documentation/sound/index.rst      | 2 ++
>  8 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

Thanks,

jon