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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2019-04-30 06:51:30 -0400
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-05-03 06:34:32 -0600
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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>
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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.