Re: [PATCH 18/22] docs: trace: ring-buffer-design.txt: convert to ReST format

Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 08:50 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> - Just like some media documents, this file is dual licensed
>   with GPL and GFDL. As right now the GFDL SPDX definition is
>   bogus (as it doesn't tell anything about invariant parts),
>   let's not use SPDX here. Let's use, instead, the same test
>   as we have on media.
[]
> diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.rst
> []
> +.. Or, alternatively,
> +..
> +.. b) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
> +..    document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
> +..    Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
> +..    Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
> +..    and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at
> +..    https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html

Use of a version 1.1 reference with a 1.2 link.

Perhaps the link should be:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.1.html

> +..
> +.. TODO: replace it to GPL-2.0 OR GFDL-1.2-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections

Is there some reason a new GFDL entry has not yet been added
to the LICENSES directory?
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