From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] LICENSES: Add CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 06:29:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180423062932.0cd167cb@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180423082635.GB20868@kroah.com>
On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:26:35 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > Willy, it's your file, Documentation/core-api/idr.rst that is needing
> > > this addition to the LICENSES directory. While I'm all for CC licenses
> > > for Documentation, we don't seem to be very consistent with them.
> > > Should this be the "default" license we choose for documentation for now
> > > on?
> >
> > I'm all for it. If we can agree than this should move to preferred/ and not
> > to other/
>
> Ok, that sounds good, Jon? I know you have looked into picking a decent
> license for documentation, any thoughts here?
CC-BY-SA is a good license for docs, but it's not GPL-compatible, so I
don't think that anything with that license can incorporate kerneldoc
comments or, conceivably, be integrated into the whole sphinx document
tree (which does use those comments). That leads to my own believe that
the docs really need to be GPL-licensed, even though it's not the ideal
solution.
I suppose it might be worth putting this question to the LF lawyers to
see what they think. It's not as if I really know what I'm talking
about, after all...
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-23 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-22 22:02 [patch 0/9] LICENSES: Add missing License Text and fixup bogus identifiers Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-22 22:02 ` [patch 1/9] x86/jailhouse: Fix incorrect SPDX identifier Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 6:52 ` Jan Kiszka
2018-04-23 8:22 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-22 22:02 ` [patch 2/9] pinctrl: sh-pfc: r8a77965: Fixup " Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 9:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-22 22:02 ` [patch 3/9] ARM: S3C24XX: Fix invalid " Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 15:26 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2018-04-24 13:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-22 22:02 ` [patch 4/9] LICENSES/GPL2.0: Add GPL-2.0-only/or-later as valid identifiers Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 6:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-23 7:19 ` Hans Verkuil
2018-04-23 10:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-04-24 8:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 18:24 ` Kate Stewart
2018-04-22 22:02 ` [patch 5/9] LICENSES: Add X11 license Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 6:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-22 22:02 ` [patch 6/9] LICENSES: Add CDDL-1.0 license text Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 6:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-22 22:02 ` [patch 7/9] LICENSES: Add Apache 2.0 " Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 6:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-22 22:02 ` [patch 8/9] LICENSES: Add CC-BY-SA-4.0 " Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 6:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-23 7:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 8:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-23 10:21 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-04-23 12:29 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2018-04-22 22:02 ` [patch 9/9] LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB " Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-23 6:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-23 6:57 ` [patch 0/9] LICENSES: Add missing License Text and fixup bogus identifiers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-23 7:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
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