On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:31:33AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Am 24.11.20 um 10:18 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:00:01AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>> For context: Patch 2 of this series adds a text to the Documentation/ directory >>> which (for now) uses "GPL-2.0+ OR CC-BY-4.0", as I want to make it easy and >>> attractive for others to base their work on it. I'm not strongly attached to >>> CC-BY-4.0, but it seemed like the best choice: it's designed for such usage and >>> afaics better than using MIT for text files. >> >> And you've not Cced me on that patch 2 or patch 3, which makes Ccing >> me on this pretty useless as I can't judge the context. > > Argh, sorry, slipped through. You can find it here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/2f314e58cb14c1579f843f8c72bdb4bbb83ac20a.1606137108.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > FWIW, here it is for easy access (just sent with thunderbird instead of > git send-mail, hopefully should be enough for this): So what is so special with this documentation that it needs a (for the kernel tree) unusual license? How to we make sure people don't accidentally end up including things they can't?
