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Date:   Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:15:40 +0100
From:   Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how
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Hi,

> One other thing that occurred to me is that documentation files, too,
> are copyrightable and should have license identifiers.

Would it make sense to take an incremental approach to this? Get the
source code and identifiers worked on by Thomas et al through first, then
think about and fix up potential other issues, like the top level COPYING
file, or documentation :-)

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