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LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated

Make it clear in the directory name that these are not intended for new
code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

authored by

Christoph Hellwig and committed by
Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
··· 234 234 235 235 | 236 236 237 - 2. Not recommended licenses: 237 + 2. Deprecated licenses: 238 238 239 239 These licenses should only be used for existing code or for importing 240 240 code from a different project. These licenses are available from the 241 241 directory:: 242 242 243 - LICENSES/other/ 243 + LICENSES/deprecated/ 244 244 245 245 in the kernel source tree. 246 246 ··· 250 250 251 251 Examples:: 252 252 253 - LICENSES/other/ISC 253 + LICENSES/deprecated/ISC 254 254 255 255 Contains the Internet Systems Consortium license text and the required 256 256 metatags:: 257 257 258 - LICENSES/other/GPL-1.0 258 + LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0 259 259 260 260 Contains the GPL version 1 license text and the required metatags. 261 261
LICENSES/other/GPL-1.0 LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0
LICENSES/other/ISC LICENSES/deprecated/ISC
LICENSES/other/Linux-OpenIB LICENSES/deprecated/Linux-OpenIB
LICENSES/other/X11 LICENSES/deprecated/X11