On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 04:18:46PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
