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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs/zh_CN: Add staging/xz Chinese translation
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On 2022/10/20 22:04, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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
Thanks for your advice. I will add the GPLv2 license if the file lacks of license
declaration.

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