[PATCH ALT] multipath-tools: add licence info to README

[PATCH ALT] multipath-tools: add licence info to README

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Alternative patch to [PATCH v2 2/2] multipath-tools: link LICENSES/LGPL-2.0 to LICENSE.default

Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Gris Ge <fge@redhat.com>
Cc: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com>
Cc: DM ML <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
---
 README | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 89bab74..2fc4a81 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -51,3 +51,10 @@ Maintainer
 ==========
 Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com>
 Device-mapper development mailing list <dm-devel@redhat.com>
+
+Licence
+=======
+The multipath-tools source code is covered by several different
+licences. Refer to the individual source files for details.
+Source files which do not specify a licence are shipped under
+LGPL-2.0 (see LICENSES/LGPL-2.0).
-- 
2.17.0

Re: [PATCH ALT] multipath-tools: add licence info to README

[Bart Van Assche]

On Fri, 2018-04-13 at 18:17 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> +Licence

Isn't the preferred spelling "License"?

Thanks,

Bart.

Re: [PATCH ALT] multipath-tools: add licence info to README

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 04/13/2018 06:18 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:

> On Fri, 2018-04-13 at 18:17 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>> +Licence
> 
> Isn't the preferred spelling "License"?

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/licence

licence
(US license)

Usage:
Note that in British English licence is the correct spelling for the
noun, and is also an acceptable variant spelling of the verb.
In US English both noun and verb are spelled license.