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

Dave Chinner
2018-10-12T01:33:13Z

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.

Ok, thanks for following upon this, Jon. We'll just keep it all in
the existing external repo and work out what to do from there.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com