linux-kernel - Re: [patch 8/9] LICENSES: Add CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text

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Date:   Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:26:35 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] LICENSES: Add CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 09:37:14AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:02:16AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > Add the full text of the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license to the kernel tree.  It was
> > > copied directly from:
> > >     
> > >    https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.html#licenseText
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > 
> > As we only have 1 user of this, do we really need it?
> > 
> > Willy, it's your file, Documentation/core-api/idr.rst that is needing
> > this addition to the LICENSES directory.  While I'm all for CC licenses
> > for Documentation, we don't seem to be very consistent with them.
> > Should this be the "default" license we choose for documentation for now
> > on?
> 
> I'm all for it. If we can agree than this should move to preferred/ and not
> to other/

Ok, that sounds good, Jon?  I know you have looked into picking a decent
license for documentation, any thoughts here?

thanks,

greg k-h