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=-15.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham 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 5BEBBC4361A for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 21:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F9822A85 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 21:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728890AbgLDV1Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:27:25 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:37032 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727176AbgLDV1Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:27:25 -0500 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B030B735; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 21:26:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net B030B735 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1607117205; bh=6W3sqxU/NqTvoLox5sB3lYweXuF48Ay/zVMtMc+y6oc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=kf23UPQm8dY086hMkt+K0XcabWW2eHHGleG5sxmoPbGeBGZMPRnewyfag9M03yNoE ORizSj4/o/AYp8EUBRat83eLckOtpWzQk87u910r33WFscjrhW/I9BbeZcWiuEVfeO /S5lpdnb0HzBVSxsY+bbWHNqxjj+KppfIb73Uo8b2DEX6y+z2h+9nPmu7LU1gDYen8 sTpoMNDgos1G/kR8ZVcjsVMk4FuHPUREuxje1W5d1zWQvWXeqs8AoXoSI3H8lOQUrj kLrzgAwDrIdV0Qx8ouYcHyIReW7n67rrzcZKJwVn+D7nQ9pjZZGIGQAg2fkluN6x3S U6ymVA8dIlv6A== Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 14:26:43 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis , Randy Dunlap , Thomas Gleixner , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license Message-ID: <20201204142643.0c27f848@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: <7115b6c20ae3e6db0370fe4002dd586011205e1c.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 13:23:43 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 07:43:48AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Add the full text of the CC-BY-4.0 license to the kernel tree as well as > > the required tags for reference and tooling. > > > > The license text was copied directly from the following url, but for > > clarification a 'Creative Commons' was added before 'Attribution 4.0 > > International' in the first line: > > https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt > > > > CC-BY-4.0 is GPLv2 compatible, but when for example used for the > > kernel's documentation it can easily happen that sphinx during > > processing combines it with text or code from files using a more > > restrictive license[1]. This bears pitfalls, hence point that risk out > > and suggest to only use this license in combination with the GPLv2. > > > > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201201144314.GA14256@lst.de > > > > Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis > > CC: Thomas Gleixner > > CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > CC: Christoph Hellwig > > --- > > LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 | 410 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 410 insertions(+) > > create mode 100644 LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 > > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Thanks for that. Unless somebody screams, my intent is to apply these patches in the near future. jon