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List:       linux-doc
Subject:    Re: Documentation license
From:       Randy Dunlap <rdunlap () infradead ! org>
Date:       2017-12-27 21:57:22
Message-ID: 67753227-4d6d-4d94-6e8d-89f10e168e8f () infradead ! org
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On 12/14/2017 04:49 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> I've written a couple of thousand words of documentation for the XArray.
> I need to decide how to license it.  There are no SPDX tags in Documentation/
> to date, so I have no examples to crib from.
> 
> 1. How does one add an SPDX tag to an rst file?
> 
> 2. What license should I use?  I'd like people to be able to produce
>    dead tree versions of the documentation, but if they make improvements
>    to it, I want to see them.  Something in the CC BY-SA 4.0 vein?
> 
> 3. Is there a problem with extracting kernel-doc from a GPLv2 licensed
>    file and then redistributing the result under CC BY-SA?  They seem to
>    have the same broad intent, but lawyers may grumble.

Maybe you should address this to the legalese people who worked on
the new licensing text?  since WANAL.

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~Randy
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