Re: Linux kernel development

["Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>]

On 6/5/06, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/5/06, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Could you add a README (including contact info, etc), and perhaps a TODO
> > > (and a copy of SubmittingPatches, which I assume applies here too?) to the
> > > project? A license for the text is required, AFAIU (GPLv2, or one of the
> > > Creative Commons licenses perhaps?).
> >
> > Not and exepert in this area, I think I'll release it under GPL2.
>
> Did you write all (most) of it? If not, you'd have to ask the original
> author(s).
>
> BTW, thinking it over in the shower today, if/when this is translated into
> asciidoc(1) (or whatever), a "source code" license (like GPLv2) would be
> appropiate IMHO. Besides, using the same license as what it describes is
> sensible.
>
> > What's the normal approach? Can I just add:
> > #             This document is distribuited under
> > #             GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
> > #                    Version 2, June 1991
> > #               http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
> >
> > To the text?
>
> The license text spells it out ;-)
>
> I would add language to that effect to the README file, and bundle the
> standard COPYING file with the package

Modified and pushed out, since part of the document is from inkernel
documentation I choose GPL v2.

Thanks!

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Paolo
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