Re: [PATCH 02/24] docs: carry a copy of the CC-by-SA 3.0 license

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 02:30:28PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:34:27PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Add the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license so that the XFS Data Structures &
> > Algorithms book can reference it with spdx headers.
> 
> NAK.  We should not add random new licenses to the kernel tree.

Given these patches are all CC-BY-SA-3.0+ (i.e. they have an "or
later" clause in them), and the kernel already has
LICENSES/other/CC-BY-SA-4.0, why not just put them under the license
that the kernel already supports?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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