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

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Message-ID: <20080720111601.GA11143@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:16:01 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
	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 Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:47:18PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> this work, as long as they give me credit (keep the copyright). I don't
> remember exactly how the thread went, I first put the document under the
> GPL, but I someone told me that isn't appropriate for documentation. So I
> used this instead. I know the documentation and the code are distributed
> together, but the "binary" of Linux does not contain the Documentation
> directory as source, so I would think that the GPL is not quite
> appropriate for the Documentation directory.
> 
> I'll need to ask a lawyer about this, but how about a "dual" license?
> The GFDL and what ever you feel is appropriate?

The GPL is what covers the whole kernel tree and thuis also te
Documentation/ directory.  I don't think we've ever denied anyone to do
any kind of dual licensing as as strange as it might be, so a GPLv2/GFDL
dual license  sounds perfectly fine.
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