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From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Rui Li <me@lirui.org>, Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs/zh_CN: Add staging/xz Chinese translation
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Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:04:57 -0600
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Rui Li <me@lirui.org> writes:

> Thanks for your reminding. I ran the check patch script before sending
> this patch.  However, the original file Documentation/staging/xz.rst
> seems not has SPDX-License-Identifier header.

You cannot know what the license of the source file is, since it hasn't
been declared there.  What you *do* know, though, is that it must be
GPLv2 compatible.  Your translation can thus be strictly GPLv2.  My
suggestion in such cases would be to put:

.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

into translations of documents that lack an SPDX line of their own.

Thanks,

jon