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

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 15:43:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201201144314.GA14256@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201130075137.3b551bef@lwn.net>

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, too, should address this concern, I think.
> 
> In general I'd rather see fewer licenses in Documentation/ than more.  But
> Thorsten has put a lot of effort into this work; if he wants to
> dual-license it in this way, my inclination is to accommodate him.  But
> that requires getting CC-BY-4.0 accepted into the LICENSES directory.
> (That said, I believe it should go into LICENSES/dual/ rather than
> preferred/).

I agree with everything said above.