Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 13:23:43 +0100
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 07:43:48AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Add the full text of the CC-BY-4.0 license to the kernel tree as well as
> > the required tags for reference and tooling.
> > 
> > The license text was copied directly from the following url, but for
> > clarification a 'Creative Commons' was added before 'Attribution 4.0
> > International' in the first line:
> > https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt
> > 
> > CC-BY-4.0 is GPLv2 compatible, but when for example used for the
> > kernel's documentation it can easily happen that sphinx during
> > processing combines it with text or code from files using a more
> > restrictive license[1]. This bears pitfalls, hence point that risk out
> > and suggest to only use this license in combination with the GPLv2.
> > 
> > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201201144314.GA14256@xxxxxx
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 | 410 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 410 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
Thanks for that.  Unless somebody screams, my intent is to apply these
patches in the near future.

jon