From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:60042 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726422AbeJORkV (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:40:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 02:55:49 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] xfs-4.20: major documentation surgery Message-ID: <20181015095549.GA23946@infradead.org> References: <153862669110.26427.16504658853992750743.stgit@magnolia> <20181006005154.GM12041@dastard> <20181011112735.4f696d8a@lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181011112735.4f696d8a@lwn.net> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Dave Chinner , "Darrick J. Wong" , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:27:35AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 10:51:54 +1000 > Dave Chinner wrote: > > > Can you let us know whether the CC-by-SA 4.0 license is acceptible > > or not? That's really the only thing that we need clarified at this > > point - if it's OK I'll to pull this into the XFS tree for the 4.20 > > merge window. If not, we'll go back to the drawing board.... > > 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.