From 490cfbe2262d6e3d4a4a873986fbc80c2b084629 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Walters Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 21:55:54 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] README: Tweak licensing description Basically it wasn't clear that the man pages and API doc remain LGPLv2. Closes: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/1456 Closes: #1574 Approved by: smcv --- README.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 485bc26d..c54151d1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ Licensing The licensing for the *code* of libostree can be canonically found in the individual files; and the overall status in the [COPYING](https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/blob/master/COPYING) -file in the source. Currently, that's LGPLv2+. +file in the source. Currently, that's LGPLv2+. This also covers the man pages and API docs. -The license for the *documentation* of libostree is: `SPDX-License-Identifier: (CC-BY-SA-3.0 OR GFDL-1.3-or-later)` +The license for the manual documentation in the `doc/` directory is: +`SPDX-License-Identifier: (CC-BY-SA-3.0 OR GFDL-1.3-or-later)` +This is intended to allow use by Wikipedia and other projects. + +In general, files should have a `SPDX-License-Identifier` and that is canonical.