Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262192AbTFOMyN (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:54:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262197AbTFOMyN (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:54:13 -0400 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:18191 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262192AbTFOMyM (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:54:12 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:07:58 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: torvalds@transmeta.com Cc: mochel@osdl.org, david-b@pacbell.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: GFDL in the kernel tree Message-ID: <20030615140758.A9390@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@transmeta.com, mochel@osdl.org, david-b@pacbell.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 23 2.5.71 introduces two GFDL-licensed files in the kernel tree, there's a few problems with this, because: (1) COPYING in the toplevel says the kernel tree is GPLv2, GFDL is GPL incompatible. (2) Documentation/DocBook/gadget.tmpl, one of the files, includes extracted from source files licensed under GPL, making this a GPL license violation. (3) Documentation/kobject.txt, the other files claims it's under GFDL but doesn't actually include the license text as mandated by the GFDL. And of course there's still all those nasty issue with GFDL like invariant sections and cover texts that make at least the debian-devel list believe it's an unfree license.. Folks, could we please only use GPL-compatible licenses in the kernel tree? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/