Commit b9bf4e4e authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Jonathan Corbet

LICENSES: Add CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text

Add the full text of the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license to the kernel tree.  It was
copied directly from:

   https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.html#licenseTextSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent f1137e96
Valid-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0
Usage-Guide:
To use the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
license put the following SPDX tag/value pair into a comment according to
the placement guidelines in the licensing rules documentation:
SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
License-Text:
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