From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] ftrace: Documentation
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:19:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717141918.GA13741@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0807160737250.31086@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:39:23AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> >
> > * Steven Rostedt:
> >
> > > + License: The GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
> >
> > Is it really a good idea to put files under GPL-incompatible licenses
> > into the tree?
> >
>
> The document is not code. The GPL is not appropriate for it. I had this
> discussion when I wrote the rt-mutex-design.txt file, and the conclussion
> was that the GFDL was an appropriate license.
The GFDL is never appropriate, and certainly not for the kernel tree.
We had some files under it in the past and we decided to relicense them
after talking to the authors.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-10 16:46 [PATCH] ftrace: Documentation Steven Rostedt
2008-07-10 18:16 ` Jon Masters
2008-07-10 19:59 ` Elias Oltmanns
2008-07-10 20:28 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-11 0:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-11 0:37 ` [PATCH -v2] " Steven Rostedt
2008-07-11 19:16 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-11 20:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-11 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-11 23:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-15 1:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-15 1:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-15 1:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-15 1:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-15 2:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-15 2:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-15 3:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-15 3:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-12 10:16 ` John Kacur
2008-07-16 10:10 ` Florian Weimer
2008-07-16 11:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-17 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-07-18 2:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-20 11:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-10 23:55 ` [PATCH] " Steven Rostedt
2008-07-11 7:51 ` Elias Oltmanns
2008-07-12 12:49 ` Abhishek Sagar
2008-07-15 14:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-15 15:33 ` Abhishek Sagar
2008-07-14 9:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-14 18:02 ` David Teigland
2008-07-14 19:59 ` Steven Rostedt
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