Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Dec 01 2020 - 09:44:31 EST


On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 07:51:37AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> We could also, if we saw fit, take the position that anything that has
> been processed through the docs build is a derived product of the kernel
> and must be GPL-licensed - any dual-licensing would be stripped by that
> act. That, too, should address this concern, I think.
>
> In general I'd rather see fewer licenses in Documentation/ than more. But
> Thorsten has put a lot of effort into this work; if he wants to
> dual-license it in this way, my inclination is to accommodate him. But
> that requires getting CC-BY-4.0 accepted into the LICENSES directory.
> (That said, I believe it should go into LICENSES/dual/ rather than
> preferred/).

I agree with everything said above.