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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] docs: Convert the Speakup guide to rst
On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 04:18:46PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes:
>
> > Jonathan Corbet, le mar. 01 juin 2021 12:53:01 -0600, a ecrit:
> >> I am concerned about one thing, though: the licensing of this document
> >> is not GPL-compatible, which means we can't build it into the rest of
> >> the docs.
> >
> > ? I see various GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later documentation in
> > userspace-api/media notably, do they have such build restriction? What
> > is actually posing problem in the GFDL licence?
>
> Those media docs are separate from the rest of the kernel
> documentation. Other than that, all FDL in Documentation/ was
> dual-licensed, last time I checked.
>
> The problem is that the kernel docs, when built, include a great deal of
> code and text taken directly from the kernel source. The built docs are
> thus a derived product of the kernel and the result needs to carry a
> GPL-compatible license. I've spent some time talking with lawyers about
> this, and they have confirmed that view of things.
>
> This document should not have entered Documentation/ with that license;
> had I known this was happening at the time, I would have raised a fuss.
> As a standalone .txt file there is probably no legal problem, but that
> changes as soon as you bring it into RST TOC tree.

Sorry about this, I totally missed this issue when moving the code out
of staging.

greg k-h

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