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authorMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>2018-08-14 14:43:12 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2018-09-01 01:50:50 +0300
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docs: tidy up TOCs and refs to license-rules.rst
The documentation and TOCs are organized in a manner of a tree. Adding a TOC to the root, which refers to a file which is located in a subfolder forms a grid. Those TOCs are a bit confusing and thats why we get additional error messages while building partial documentation:: $ make SPHINXDIRS=process htmldocs ... checking consistency... Documentation/process/license-rules.rst: \ WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree To fix it, the *root-license-TOC* is replaced by a reference and the 'license-roles.txt' is added to the Documentation/process/index.rst TOC. BTW: there was an old licences remark in Documentation/process/howto.rst which is also updated, mentioning SPDX and pointing to the license-rules.rst Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Legal Issues
------------
-The Linux kernel source code is released under the GPL. Please see the
-file, COPYING, in the main directory of the source tree, for details on
-the license. If you have further questions about the license, please
-contact a lawyer, and do not ask on the Linux kernel mailing list. The
-people on the mailing lists are not lawyers, and you should not rely on
-their statements on legal matters.
+The Linux kernel source code is released under the GPL. Please see the file
+COPYING in the main directory of the source tree. The Linux kernel licensing
+rules and how to use `SPDX <https://spdx.org/>`_ identifiers in source code are
+descibed in :ref:`Documentation/process/license-rules.rst <kernel_licensing>`.
+If you have further questions about the license, please contact a lawyer, and do
+not ask on the Linux kernel mailing list. The people on the mailing lists are
+not lawyers, and you should not rely on their statements on legal matters.
For common questions and answers about the GPL, please see: