From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: mochel@osdl.org, david-b@pacbell.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GFDL in the kernel tree
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:11:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030615181107.B19242@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306150942280.8088-100000@home.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:48:45AM -0700
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:48:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > Folks, could we please only use GPL-compatible licenses in the kernel
> > tree?
>
> I'd agree. The GFDL is a disaster anyway. You can't even fix bugs in the
> documentation without having to change the title etc. There are much
> better licenses around.
>
> I'd say we just remove the files.
Okay, I'll wait a day or two for the copyright holders to comment and
maybe change the license and then submit a patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-15 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-15 13:07 Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-15 16:05 ` David Brownell
2003-06-15 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-15 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-15 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-06-16 15:38 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-16 16:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-16 18:45 Downing, Thomas
2003-06-16 19:21 ` viro
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