Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] xfs-4.20: major documentation surgery

Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-15T09:55:50Z

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:27:35AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 10:51:54 +1000
> Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> > Can you let us know whether the CC-by-SA 4.0 license is acceptible
> > or not? That's really the only thing that we need clarified at this
> > point - if it's OK I'll to pull this into the XFS tree for the 4.20
> > merge window. If not, we'll go back to the drawing board....
>
> OK, I've had a long conversation with the LF lawyer, and she said clearly
> that we really should not be introducing CC-SA material into the kernel
> source tree. It's a pain; I really do like CC-SA better for
> documentation, but it's not GPL-compatible, and that creates a problem for
> the processed docs.

That was exactly my concern with this patchset.

Btw, I think we have the same issue with idr.rst, and unless we can
relicense it we should drop it from the tree, as it actually includes
kernel source files.