From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] xfs-4.20: major documentation surgery
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:28:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181015082841.2b6815ee@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181015095549.GA23946@infradead.org>
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 02:55:49 -0700
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > OK, I've had a long conversation with the LF lawyer, and she said clearly
> > that we really should not be introducing CC-SA material into the kernel
> > source tree. It's a pain; I really do like CC-SA better for
> > documentation, but it's not GPL-compatible, and that creates a problem for
> > the processed docs.
>
> That was exactly my concern with this patchset.
>
> Btw, I think we have the same issue with idr.rst, and unless we can
> relicense it we should drop it from the tree, as it actually includes
> kernel source files.
...and a significant DOC section at that, not just function prototypes.
I'd already asked Willy [CC'd] about this once, haven't gotten an answer
yet. Hopefully we can address this once he comes back around.
Thanks,
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-15 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-04 4:18 [PATCH v2 00/22] xfs-4.20: major documentation surgery Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:18 ` [PATCH 01/22] docs: add skeleton of XFS Data Structures and Algorithms book Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:18 ` [PATCH 03/22] docs: add XFS self-describing metadata integrity doc to DS&A book Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:18 ` [PATCH 04/22] docs: add XFS delayed logging design " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:18 ` [PATCH 05/22] docs: add XFS shared data block chapter " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 06/22] docs: add XFS online repair " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 07/22] docs: add XFS common types and magic numbers " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 08/22] docs: add XFS testing chapter to the " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 09/22] docs: add XFS btrees " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 10/22] docs: add XFS dir/attr btree structure " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 11/22] docs: add XFS allocation group metadata " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 12/22] docs: add XFS reverse mapping structures " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 13/22] docs: add XFS refcount btree structure to " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 14/22] docs: add XFS log to the " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:19 ` [PATCH 15/22] docs: add XFS internal inodes " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:20 ` [PATCH 16/22] docs: add preliminary XFS realtime rmapbt structures " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:20 ` [PATCH 17/22] docs: add XFS inode format " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:20 ` [PATCH 18/22] docs: add XFS data extent map doc " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:20 ` [PATCH 19/22] docs: add XFS directory structure " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:20 ` [PATCH 20/22] docs: add XFS extended attributes structures " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:20 ` [PATCH 21/22] docs: add XFS symlink " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-04 4:20 ` [PATCH 22/22] docs: add XFS metadump structure to " Darrick J. Wong
2018-10-06 0:51 ` [PATCH v2 00/22] xfs-4.20: major documentation surgery Dave Chinner
2018-10-06 1:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-10-06 1:09 ` Dave Chinner
2018-10-06 13:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-06 14:10 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-10-11 17:27 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-10-12 1:33 ` Dave Chinner
2018-10-15 9:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-15 14:28 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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2018-10-04 3:25 Darrick J. Wong
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