Re: [patch 8/9] LICENSES: Add CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Apr 23 2018 - 03:37:23 EST


On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:02:16AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Add the full text of the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license to the kernel tree. It was
> > copied directly from:
> >
> > https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.html#licenseText
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> As we only have 1 user of this, do we really need it?
>
> Willy, it's your file, Documentation/core-api/idr.rst that is needing
> this addition to the LICENSES directory. While I'm all for CC licenses
> for Documentation, we don't seem to be very consistent with them.
> Should this be the "default" license we choose for documentation for now
> on?

I'm all for it. If we can agree than this should move to preferred/ and not
to other/

Thanks,

tglx