Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-12-01 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 01.12.20 um 15:43 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 07:51:37AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: @Jonathan: thx for getting the ball rolling again! We could also, if we saw fit, take the position that anything that has been processed through the docs build is a derived product

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-12-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 07:51:37AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > We could also, if we saw fit, take the position that anything that has > been processed through the docs build is a derived product of the kernel > and must be GPL-licensed - any dual-licensing would be stripped by that > act. That

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-11-30 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:11:09 + Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > That's why I came up with the thought "make the text available under more > > liberal license in addition to the GPLv2 is a good idea here". I considered > > MIT, but from what I see CC-BY 4.0 is a way better choice for documentation >

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-11-26 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 24.11.20 um 10:36 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:31:33AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Am 24.11.20 um 10:18 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:00:01AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: For context: Patch 2 of this series adds a text to the Documenta

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-11-24 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 24.11.20 um 13:11 schrieb Matthew Wilcox: On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 11:07:41AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: There is nothing special with this text, it's just that GPL is known to not be really ideal for documentation. That makes it hard for people to reuse parts of the docs outside of the k

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-11-24 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 11:07:41AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > There is nothing special with this text, it's just that GPL is known to not > be really ideal for documentation. That makes it hard for people to reuse > parts of the docs outside of the kernel context, say in books or on > websit

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-11-24 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 24.11.20 um 10:36 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:31:33AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Am 24.11.20 um 10:18 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:00:01AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: For context: Patch 2 of this series adds a text to the Documenta

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-11-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:31:33AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Am 24.11.20 um 10:18 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:00:01AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>> For context: Patch 2 of this series adds a text to the Documentation/ >>> directory >>> which (for now) use

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-11-24 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 24.11.20 um 10:18 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:00:01AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: For context: Patch 2 of this series adds a text to the Documentation/ directory which (for now) uses "GPL-2.0+ OR CC-BY-4.0", as I want to make it easy and attractive for others to

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-11-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:00:01AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > For context: Patch 2 of this series adds a text to the Documentation/ > directory > which (for now) uses "GPL-2.0+ OR CC-BY-4.0", as I want to make it easy and > attractive for others to base their work on it. I'm not strongly at

[PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-11-24 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Add the full text of the CC-BY-4.0 license to the kernel tree as well as the required tags for reference and tooling. The license text was copied directly from this url, but a 'Creative Commons' was added before 'Attribution 4.0 International' in the first line: https://creativecommons.org/licens