Jonathan Corbet, le mar. 01 juin 2021 16:18:46 -0600, a ecrit: > 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. Ah... > I've spent some time talking with lawyers about > this, and they have confirmed that view of things. Yes, sure. > As a standalone .txt file there is probably no legal problem, but that > changes as soon as you bring it into RST TOC tree. Yes. > >> What are the chances that we can get the authors to agree on a change to > >> a GPL-compatible license for this file? > > > > I don't know about Collins' opinion on this, Cc-ing him with the latest > > mail my archives know for him (which dates 2008...) > > > > The copyright "the Speakup Team" is a more complex thing to look for. > > Do you have a history of contributors to the file in its previous home? Checking more closely, it seems we have it. The detail is in git@xxxxxxxxxx:linux-speakup/speakup.git in ./doc/spkguide.txt, but that seems relatively simple: - The initial import of the file (bddef0d280cd) wears only the Gene Collins copyright notice. - I made some changes and added my copyright notice. - Christopher Brannon (now in Cc) made various changes and added the "the Speakup Team" copyright notice. - William Hubbs (now in Cc) made some changes. - Steve Holmes (now in Cc) added one sentence. So we'd need Gene's, Christopher's, William's, and Steve's ack on adding the GPL alternative to the GFDL-1.2 licence. Samuel
