[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] multipath-tools: add GPLv2 as COPYING

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 03/28/2018 12:04 AM, Martin Wilck wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 20:28 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>> Source directly from: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2
>> .0.txt
>>
>> Cc: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui at opensvc.com>
>> Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel at redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com>
> 
> Do you plan to add a README.COPYING or similar explaining which license
> applies to what part of the code?


No, I do not. It should be done by the current maintainer and/or files
copyright owners.


Currently the best and standard way is to use "SPDX License Identifier",
since many of the Linux Foundation projects are starting to employ it:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst#n35