From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.136]:14871 "EHLO ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726107AbeI0FhC (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2018 01:37:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:21:40 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/24] docs: carry a copy of the CC-by-SA 3.0 license Message-ID: <20180926232140.GE31060@dastard> References: <153799045443.31202.17537455000771265705.stgit@magnolia> <153799046767.31202.13234065186281153272.stgit@magnolia> <20180926213028.GA22763@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180926213028.GA22763@infradead.org> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 02:30:28PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:34:27PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > From: Darrick J. Wong > > > > Add the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license so that the XFS Data Structures & > > Algorithms book can reference it with spdx headers. > > NAK. We should not add random new licenses to the kernel tree. Given these patches are all CC-BY-SA-3.0+ (i.e. they have an "or later" clause in them), and the kernel already has LICENSES/other/CC-BY-SA-4.0, why not just put them under the license that the kernel already supports? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com