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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license
    On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 11:07:41AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
    > There is nothing special with this text, it's just that GPL is known to not
    > be really ideal for documentation. That makes it hard for people to reuse
    > parts of the docs outside of the kernel context, say in books or on
    > websites. But it IMHO would be good for us if others could simply use this
    > text as a base in such places. Otherwise they'd often face a situation where
    > they had to write something completely new themselves, which afsics often
    > leads to texts that can be incomplete, inaccurate or actually missleading.
    > That can lead to bad bug reports, which is annoying both for reporters and
    > kernel developers.
    >
    > That's why I came up with the thought "make the text available under more
    > liberal license in addition to the GPLv2 is a good idea here". I considered
    > MIT, but from what I see CC-BY 4.0 is a way better choice for documentation
    > that is more known to authors.
    >
    > And I hope others pick up the idea when they write new documentation for the
    > kernel, so maybe sooner or later it's not unusual anymore.

    It's really tricky to make this work when, eg, including kernel-doc from
    files which are unambiguously licensed under the GPL. I'd be happy to
    sign up to licensing the files I control under GPL-with-CC-BY-SA-exception
    that said something like "any documentation extracted from this file may
    be distributed under the BY-SA license", but I'm not sure everybody would.

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