linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2] ftrace: Documentation

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:39:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Elias Oltmanns <eo@...ensachen.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Clark Williams <clark.williams@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] ftrace: Documentation


On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:

>
> * Steven Rostedt:
>
> > +  License:   The GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
>
> Is it really a good idea to put files under GPL-incompatible licenses
> into the tree?
>

The document is not code. The GPL is not appropriate for it. I had this
discussion when I wrote the rt-mutex-design.txt file, and the conclussion
was that the GFDL was an appropriate license.

-- Steve

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