Hi Lars

On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 12:34 +0000, Lars Kurth wrote:
> * Possibly stuff such as 
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/support-matrix.html__;!K6dmGCEab4ueJg!lwAwYJi7cUkbX7CUXnOD9i7laj_9xcyafF714u6PO04tu0CYUKDHWBHAy2XD0mvEiA$
>   (which is currently GPL-2,
>    but we could relicense to say GPL-2 and CC-BY-4 if we had to)
> The implication is that the sphinx docs would not be fully CC-BY-4,
> but the bulk of the pages would be
> 
> * Would we ever include API docs generated from GPLv2 code? E.g. for
> safety use-cases?
> @Stefano, @Artem: I guess this one is for you. 
> I suppose if we would have a similar issue for a safety manual
> I am also assuming we would want to use sphinx docs and rst to
> generate a future safety manual
> 

Yes, I think we will have to use some API docs in safety related
documentation. But I do not see any issue with that because using
"description" part of headers in documentation can be treated as "fair
use" and thus will not create a license conflict as confirmed in 
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#SourceCodeInDocumentation

 -- Artem
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