Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:51:29 +0200 | From | "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <> | Subject | Re: Linux kernel development |
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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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