Re: Linux kernel development

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

On 6/5/06, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 13:39 +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > > [Yup, tangle it up in red tape even before it gets off the ground ;-]
> > >
>
> I released by writeup about the rt-mutex-design.txt (currently in -mm
> under Documentation) under the "GNU Free Documentation License, Version
> 1.2".
>
> If you want to read the license it is here:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

Thanks Steven,
but a little part of the document is from inkernel documentation (and
vice versa, /Documentation/HOWTO includes part of this document) so I
stick with GPLv2.

I just pushed out the changes.

Ciao,
-- 
Paolo
http://paolociarrocchi.googlepages.com