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 B4CB7C4361A for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 12:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70964229EF for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 12:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728722AbgLDMXI (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2020 07:23:08 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:49058 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725999AbgLDMXH (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2020 07:23:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 13:23:43 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1607084547; bh=5OtuoZcRnAswo0cWnYCAPv33DNXGwiLq6bVWVMztwGA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Y2u7lEDGtdmRl3wFlrQ0BLDuvfEjaDUugHFqUgqF4IGKhwgq0Q0uuPNXuq2CPU4dE h62IgBPk0bwd/Ix1D0ewSM08HSis1FzXB0qPicTfTR1eQb37MIk5s70+YB3PfZTI3h SReVXE0CgYMUNtWUl2QhMugRt4Loft7MUlLbLZdM= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: Jonathan Corbet , 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: References: <7115b6c20ae3e6db0370fe4002dd586011205e1c.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7115b6c20ae3e6db0370fe4002dd586011205e1c.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org 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