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Here's a pull request to add a new file to the kernel's Documentation directory. It adds a short document describing the views of how the Linux kernel community feels about enforcing the license of the kernel. The patch has been reviewed by a large number of kernel developers already, as seen by their acks on the patch, and their agreement of the statement with their names on it. The location of the file was also agreed upon by the Documentation maintainer, so all should be good there. For some background information about this statement, see this article written by some of the kernel developers involved in drafting it: http://kroah.com/log/blog/2017/10/16/linux-kernel-community-enforcement-statement/ and this article that answers a number of questions that came up in the discussion of this statement with the kernel developer community: http://kroah.com/log/blog/2017/10/16/linux-kernel-community-enforcement-statement-faq/ If anyone has any further questions about it, please let me, and the TAB members, know and we will be glad to help answer them. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iG0EABECAC0WIQT0tgzFv3jCIUoxPcsxR9QN2y37KQUCWeR6Sw8cZ3JlZ0Brcm9h aC5jb20ACgkQMUfUDdst+ykG3ACeN9zl6v505gikqm84ZkfBaxuxDVYAni1dqsY7 DCsTizcpTneOYeK/Sh+1 =lbTy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'enforcement-4.14-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull enforcement policy update from Greg KH: "Documentation: Add a file explaining the requested Linux kernel license enforcement policy Here's a new file to the kernel's Documentation directory. It adds a short document describing the views of how the Linux kernel community feels about enforcing the license of the kernel. The patch has been reviewed by a large number of kernel developers already, as seen by their acks on the patch, and their agreement of the statement with their names on it. The location of the file was also agreed upon by the Documentation maintainer, so all should be good there. For some background information about this statement, see this article written by some of the kernel developers involved in drafting it: http://kroah.com/log/blog/2017/10/16/linux-kernel-community-enforcement-statement/ and this article that answers a number of questions that came up in the discussion of this statement with the kernel developer community: http://kroah.com/log/blog/2017/10/16/linux-kernel-community-enforcement-statement-faq/ If anyone has any further questions about it, please let me, and the TAB members, know and we will be glad to help answer them" * tag 'enforcement-4.14-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: Documentation: Add a file explaining the Linux kernel license enforcement policy
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.