Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757466AbYGTLQ0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:16:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754556AbYGTLQT (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:16:19 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:38115 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756141AbYGTLQS (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:16:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:16:01 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Christoph Hellwig , 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: <20080720111601.GA11143@infradead.org> 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 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: 1166 Lines: 21 On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:47:18PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > 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? The GPL is what covers the whole kernel tree and thuis also te Documentation/ directory. I don't think we've ever denied anyone to do any kind of dual licensing as as strange as it might be, so a GPLv2/GFDL dual license sounds perfectly fine. -- 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/