Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] xfs-4.20: major documentation surgery

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 02:55:49 -0700
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > OK, I've had a long conversation with the LF lawyer, and she said clearly
> > that we really should not be introducing CC-SA material into the kernel
> > source tree.  It's a pain; I really do like CC-SA better for
> > documentation, but it's not GPL-compatible, and that creates a problem for
> > the processed docs.  
> 
> That was exactly my concern with this patchset.
> 
> Btw, I think we have the same issue with idr.rst, and unless we can
> relicense it we should drop it from the tree, as it actually includes
> kernel source files.

...and a significant DOC section at that, not just function prototypes.

I'd already asked Willy [CC'd] about this once, haven't gotten an answer
yet.  Hopefully we can address this once he comes back around.

Thanks,

jon



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