Re: GFDL issue in Documentation/DocBook/scsidrivers.tmpl

Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-25T12:43:29Z

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:54:48PM +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >As discussed in the thread at
> >http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.1/1928.html
> >we agreed that GFDL is not an acceptable license for documentation
> >in the kernel tree, but file in subject still comes under that
> >license.
> >
> >Douglas, any chance you could relicense it under something
> >GPL-compatible? It probably wants folding into scsi_mid_low_api.txt
> >anyway..
>
> Is the attached preferable?
> [Switch GFDL to GPL]

James, could you apply this patch?

>
>
> Doug Gilbert
>

> --- linux/Documentation/DocBook/scsidrivers.tmpl 2003-01-09 22:09:24.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux/Documentation/DocBook/scsidrivers.tmpl260t3gpl 2003-08-11 08:50:09.000000000 +1000
> @@ -16,20 +16,40 @@
> </affiliation>
> </author>
> </authorgroup>
> - <pubdate>2002-04-27</pubdate>
> + <pubdate>2003-08-11</pubdate>
>
> <copyright>
> <year>2002</year>
> + <year>2003</year>
> <holder>Douglas Gilbert</holder>
> </copyright>
> +
> <legalnotice>
>
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>
> </legalnotice>
>

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