Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759008AbYGQOTs (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:19:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755640AbYGQOTl (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:19:41 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:49706 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754401AbYGQOTk (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:19:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:19:18 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Florian Weimer , Randy Dunlap , Elias Oltmanns , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Clark Williams , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jon Masters Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] ftrace: Documentation Message-ID: <20080717141918.GA13741@infradead.org> References: <87zlop7bp6.fsf@denkblock.local> <20080710132832.38cc5048.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <871w1u5edg.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 934 Lines: 25 On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:39:23AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > > * Steven Rostedt: > > > > > + License: The GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 > > > > Is it really a good idea to put files under GPL-incompatible licenses > > into the tree? > > > > The document is not code. The GPL is not appropriate for it. I had this > discussion when I wrote the rt-mutex-design.txt file, and the conclussion > was that the GFDL was an appropriate license. The GFDL is never appropriate, and certainly not for the kernel tree. We had some files under it in the past and we decided to relicense them after talking to the authors. -- 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/