Hi Jon, > On 5 Feb 2026, at 8:19 PM, Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Amitabh Srivastava <[email protected]> writes: > >> Update http link to the documentation about how to add a kernel.org UID to >> the maintainer's key. Add missing SPDX-License-Identifier to fix a >> checkpatch warning. >> >> Signed-off-by: Amitabh Srivastava <[email protected]> >> --- >> Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst | 4 +++- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst >> b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst >> index b6919bf606c3..1e4d885dc784 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst >> +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst >> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ >> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 >> + > > Do you know that was the intended license for this file? We need to be > careful about putting license declarations on other people's work. > Yes, The Linux kernel documentation is typically licensed under GPL-2.0. Other files in the directory contain the same 'SPDX-License-Identifier' as well. However, I have added this just to satisfy checkpatch.pl requirement, which checks for missing license information in documentation files. Let me know if you think otherwise.
> Thanks, > > jon
