Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/26] Make reporting-bugs easier to grasp and yet more detailed & helpful

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:29:51 +0100
Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >   - Dual licensed CC-SA-4.0 is fine with me.  CC-BY is OK if you really
> >     want to do it that way.    
> 
> I'm unsure and would appreciate options from others here.
> 
> Here are some of my thoughts about this:
> 
> What do we loose by dual-licensing it under a liberal license like 
> CC-BY? It afaics makes it a lot more attractive for websites or books 
> authors to use this text as a base, as they don't need to fear that 
> "share alike" or the GPL might have consequences on the surroundings. 
> I'd say that's a good thing for the kernel, as it increases the chances 
> the texts built upon ours remain close to what we expect on this topic.
> 
> That's why I currently think using CC-BY is a good idea.

It's a matter of preferences; I like -SA better as a closer match to the
kernel's GPL licensing.  But it's your text, so it's your choice.

jon