Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760167AbYGRCr2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:47:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754402AbYGRCrV (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:47:21 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.124]:36986 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751959AbYGRCrV (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:47:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:47:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Christoph Hellwig 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 In-Reply-To: <20080717141918.GA13741@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <87zlop7bp6.fsf@denkblock.local> <20080710132832.38cc5048.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <871w1u5edg.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20080717141918.GA13741@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1358 Lines: 33 On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > 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. > I'm fine with any "free" license. I don't need people asking me to use this work, as long as they give me credit (keep the copyright). I don't remember exactly how the thread went, I first put the document under the GPL, but I someone told me that isn't appropriate for documentation. So I used this instead. I know the documentation and the code are distributed together, but the "binary" of Linux does not contain the Documentation directory as source, so I would think that the GPL is not quite appropriate for the Documentation directory. I'll need to ask a lawyer about this, but how about a "dual" license? The GFDL and what ever you feel is appropriate? -- Steve -- 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/