From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45502C56202 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E84702076B for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:37:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731110AbgKXJhC (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2020 04:37:02 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:53607 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731438AbgKXJhB (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2020 04:37:01 -0500 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id DB23F67373; Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:36:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:36:58 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jonathan Corbet , Randy Dunlap , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license Message-ID: <20201124093658.GA13174@lst.de> References: <20201124091852.GB11695@lst.de> <04eae024-811d-d11e-b8bd-52f0dd0e225f@leemhuis.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <04eae024-811d-d11e-b8bd-52f0dd0e225f@leemhuis.info> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:31:33AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Am 24.11.20 um 10:18 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:00:01AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>> For context: Patch 2 of this series adds a text to the Documentation/ directory >>> which (for now) uses "GPL-2.0+ OR CC-BY-4.0", as I want to make it easy and >>> attractive for others to base their work on it. I'm not strongly attached to >>> CC-BY-4.0, but it seemed like the best choice: it's designed for such usage and >>> afaics better than using MIT for text files. >> >> And you've not Cced me on that patch 2 or patch 3, which makes Ccing >> me on this pretty useless as I can't judge the context. > > Argh, sorry, slipped through. You can find it here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/2f314e58cb14c1579f843f8c72bdb4bbb83ac20a.1606137108.git.linux@leemhuis.info/ > > FWIW, here it is for easy access (just sent with thunderbird instead of > git send-mail, hopefully should be enough for this): So what is so special with this documentation that it needs a (for the kernel tree) unusual license? How to we make sure people don't accidentally end up including things they can't?