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| author | Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> | 2018-08-14 14:43:12 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2018-09-01 01:50:50 +0300 |
| commit | 9799445af124c2476c7e0cc5432375348b6a4724 (patch) | |
| tree | 22e432213ee341d2f8e113ab393aa89b5451a129 /Documentation/process/howto.rst | |
| parent | 60ca05c3b44566b70d64fbb8e87a6e0c67725468 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9799445af124c2476c7e0cc5432375348b6a4724.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/process/howto.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/howto.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/howto.rst b/Documentation/process/howto.rst index 130bf0f48875..dcb25f94188e 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/howto.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/howto.rst @@ -57,12 +57,13 @@ of doing things. 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: |