Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses

Add a file to the Documentation directory to describe how file licenses
should be described in all kernel files, using the SPDX identifier, as well
as where all licenses should be in the kernel source tree for people to
refer to (LICENSES/).

Thanks to Kate and Greg for review and editing and Jonas for the
suggestions concerning the meta tags in the licenses files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Oberg <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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@ -13,6 +13,18 @@ documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
you want to help out.
Licensing documentation
-----------------------
The following describes the license of the Linux kernel source code
(GPLv2), how to properly mark the license of individual files in the source
tree, as well as links to the full license text.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
process/license-rules.rst
User-oriented documentation
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