From: Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>,
Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@linaro.org>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:15:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171116151540.GA18500@silk.coyote.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171116080723.279591c8@lwn.net>
Hi,
> One other thing that occurred to me is that documentation files, too,
> are copyrightable and should have license identifiers.
Would it make sense to take an incremental approach to this? Get the
source code and identifiers worked on by Thomas et al through first, then
think about and fix up potential other issues, like the top level COPYING
file, or documentation :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-16 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-12 19:18 [patch 0/7] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 1/7] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:54 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-12 19:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 20:07 ` Jonathan Corbet
2017-11-12 20:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-13 10:04 ` [1/7] " Charlemagne Lasse
2017-11-13 12:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-13 12:40 ` Charlemagne Lasse
2017-11-13 13:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-16 15:07 ` [patch 1/7] " Jonathan Corbet
2017-11-16 15:15 ` Jonas Oberg [this message]
2017-11-16 18:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 7:37 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-17 8:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-17 10:53 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-17 12:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 2/7] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-14 18:02 ` Rob Herring
2017-11-14 19:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 11:46 ` Jonas Oberg
2017-11-16 13:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 3/7] LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 4/7] LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 5/7] LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 6/7] LICENSES: Add the MIT license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 7/7] LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 20:02 ` [patch 0/7] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files Joe Perches
2017-11-12 20:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-13 13:54 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-14 10:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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