From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C60BC47083 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2021 13:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1000A613DE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2021 13:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230299AbhFDNXI (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2021 09:23:08 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52444 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230004AbhFDNXG (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2021 09:23:06 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8CEE1613DE; Fri, 4 Jun 2021 13:21:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1622812867; bh=SMxbVQRzNDu0pT/nHKStbHojRrJ+0xUGMcKy6TjIlTc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=tsRy32iqiFbpWQ8vFzOS9pgLGg83/Go3/g7y3c8JAe3JzbMs2y1q85g98trrhZ7i7 alkB1K/BmLjm5vVvXRr7R08LZR4/s+FFu48UiNVctWNM8ncxPU62QdFH3imH6CPxKO 4+vcr6l2rlRBh0zg467HdJBgFwyG0KCtpfh4YciM= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:21:04 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Samuel Thibault , collins@gene3.ait.iastate.edu, Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente , grandmaster@al2klimov.de, rdunlap@infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Convert the Speakup guide to rst Message-ID: References: <20210531215737.8431-1-igormtorrente@gmail.com> <875yyxbenm.fsf@meer.lwn.net> <20210601220643.uzep2ju2zlcmpa57@begin> <874keh9qk9.fsf@meer.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874keh9qk9.fsf@meer.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 04:18:46PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > 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? > > Those media docs are separate from the rest of the kernel > documentation. Other than that, all FDL in Documentation/ was > dual-licensed, last time I checked. > > The problem is that the kernel docs, when built, include a great deal of > code and text taken directly from the kernel source. The built docs are > thus a derived product of the kernel and the result needs to carry a > GPL-compatible license. I've spent some time talking with lawyers about > this, and they have confirmed that view of things. > > This document should not have entered Documentation/ with that license; > had I known this was happening at the time, I would have raised a fuss. > As a standalone .txt file there is probably no legal problem, but that > changes as soon as you bring it into RST TOC tree. Sorry about this, I totally missed this issue when moving the code out of staging. greg k-h