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| author | Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> | 2020-12-04 07:43:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -0700 |
| commit | bc41a7f3646980ef8b6a3ed20fc50c27e70b9fa5 (patch) | |
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| parent | 751d5b27418345f56ee0bb6ce9da2988a228de10 (diff) | |
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LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license
Add the full text of the CC-BY-4.0 license to the kernel tree as well as
the required tags for reference and tooling.
The license text was copied directly from the following url, but for
clarification a 'Creative Commons' was added before 'Attribution 4.0
International' in the first line:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt
CC-BY-4.0 is GPLv2 compatible, but when for example used for the
kernel's documentation it can easily happen that sphinx during
processing combines it with text or code from files using a more
restrictive license[1]. This bears pitfalls, hence point that risk out
and suggest to only use this license in combination with the GPLv2.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201201144314.GA14256@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7115b6c20ae3e6db0370fe4002dd586011205e1c.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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