From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:51:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190430105130.24500-4-hch@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190430105130.24500-1-hch@lst.de>
Make it clear in the directory name that these are not intended for new
code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
Documentation/process/license-rules.rst | 8 ++++----
LICENSES/{other => deprecated}/GPL-1.0 | 0
LICENSES/{other => deprecated}/ISC | 0
LICENSES/{other => deprecated}/Linux-OpenIB | 0
LICENSES/{other => deprecated}/X11 | 0
5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
rename LICENSES/{other => deprecated}/GPL-1.0 (100%)
rename LICENSES/{other => deprecated}/ISC (100%)
rename LICENSES/{other => deprecated}/Linux-OpenIB (100%)
rename LICENSES/{other => deprecated}/X11 (100%)
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.
diff --git a/LICENSES/other/GPL-1.0 b/LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0
similarity index 100%
rename from LICENSES/other/GPL-1.0
rename to LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0
diff --git a/LICENSES/other/ISC b/LICENSES/deprecated/ISC
similarity index 100%
rename from LICENSES/other/ISC
rename to LICENSES/deprecated/ISC
diff --git a/LICENSES/other/Linux-OpenIB b/LICENSES/deprecated/Linux-OpenIB
similarity index 100%
rename from LICENSES/other/Linux-OpenIB
rename to LICENSES/deprecated/Linux-OpenIB
diff --git a/LICENSES/other/X11 b/LICENSES/deprecated/X11
similarity index 100%
rename from LICENSES/other/X11
rename to LICENSES/deprecated/X11
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-30 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-30 10:51 clarify other licenses in LICENSES/ Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-30 10:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-30 10:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-30 10:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-05-14 10:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated Borislav Petkov
2019-05-14 13:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-14 14:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-30 11:41 ` clarify other licenses in LICENSES/ Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-03 12:34 ` Jonathan Corbet
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