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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2019-04-30 06:51:30 -0400 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -0600 |
| commit | 62be257e986dab439537b3e1c19ef746a13e1860 (patch) | |
| tree | b355d58fa30671b195ed24e86180bd3d156a0fc7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 8ea8814fcdcb32cc667d090455649893a362c658 (diff) | |
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LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
Make it clear in the directory name that these are not intended for new
code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/license-rules.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst index 507b695fa9da..2ef44ada3f11 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst @@ -234,13 +234,13 @@ kernel, can be broken down into: | -2. Not recommended licenses: +2. Deprecated licenses: These licenses should only be used for existing code or for importing code from a different project. These licenses are available from the directory:: - LICENSES/other/ + LICENSES/deprecated/ in the kernel source tree. @@ -250,12 +250,12 @@ kernel, can be broken down into: Examples:: - LICENSES/other/ISC + LICENSES/deprecated/ISC Contains the Internet Systems Consortium license text and the required metatags:: - LICENSES/other/GPL-1.0 + LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0 Contains the GPL version 1 license text and the required metatags. |