linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Convert the Speakup guide to rst

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Message-ID: <20210601220643.uzep2ju2zlcmpa57@begin>
Date:   Wed, 2 Jun 2021 00:06:43 +0200
From:   Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, collins@...e3.ait.iastate.edu
Cc:     Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@...il.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, grandmaster@...klimov.de,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Convert the Speakup guide to rst

Jonathan Corbet, le mar. 01 juin 2021 12:53:01 -0600, a ecrit:
> I am concerned about one thing, though: the licensing of this document
> is not GPL-compatible, which means we can't build it into the rest of
> the docs.

? I see various GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later documentation in
userspace-api/media notably, do they have such build restriction? What
is actually posing problem in the GFDL licence?

> What are the chances that we can get the authors to agree on a change to
> a GPL-compatible license for this file?

I don't know about Collins' opinion on this, Cc-ing him with the latest
mail my archives know for him (which dates 2008...)

The copyright "the Speakup Team" is a more complex thing to look for.

Samuel