On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:27:35AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 10:51:54 +1000 > Dave Chinner <da...@fromorbit.com> wrote: > > > Can you let us know whether the CC-by-SA 4.0 license is acceptible > > or not? That's really the only thing that we need clarified at this > > point - if it's OK I'll to pull this into the XFS tree for the 4.20 > > merge window. If not, we'll go back to the drawing board.... > > 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.
