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LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
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Make it clear in the directory name that these are not intended for new
code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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Christoph Hellwig authored and Jonathan Corbet committed May 3, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -234,13 +234,13 @@ kernel, can be broken down into:

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2. Not recommended licenses:
2. Deprecated licenses:

These licenses should only be used for existing code or for importing
code from a different project. These licenses are available from the
directory::

LICENSES/other/
LICENSES/deprecated/

in the kernel source tree.

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Examples::

LICENSES/other/ISC
LICENSES/deprecated/ISC

Contains the Internet Systems Consortium license text and the required
metatags::

LICENSES/other/GPL-1.0
LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0

Contains the GPL version 1 license text and the required metatags.

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