Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:21:14 -0300 | From | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <> | Subject | Re: [patch 8/9] LICENSES: Add CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text |
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Em Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:26:35 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> escreveu:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 09:37:14AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:02:16AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Add the full text of the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license to the kernel tree. It was > > > > copied directly from: > > > > > > > > https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.html#licenseText > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > > > > > > As we only have 1 user of this, do we really need it? > > > > > > 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?
My 2 cents here: I'm a big fan of using C-BY-SA-4.0 for documentation. IMO, it fits better than GPL for docs. For a pure .rst file that doesn't use kernel-doc, that is the best choice on my PoV.
Yet, I'm not sure if we can import something from a GPL (using kernel-docs) on a CC rst file. Perhaps it needs some exemption to explicitly allow that.
Thanks, Mauro
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