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This change adds it to the list of compatible licenses with GPLv2 in the kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg --- Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst index 25ca49f7a..c3465e3aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst @@ -235,9 +235,9 @@ code must be compatible with version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), which is the license covering the kernel distribution as a whole. In practice, that means that all code contributions are covered either by GPLv2 (with, optionally, language allowing distribution under later -versions of the GPL) or the three-clause BSD license. 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