Bug#698668: [PATCH] Documentation/media: uapi: Explicitly say there are no Invariant Sections
Em Thu, 9 Aug 2018 12:19:20 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> escreveu:
> Em Fri, 3 Aug 2018 15:41:53 +0100
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> escreveu:
>
> > The GNU Free Documentation License allows for a work to specify
> > Invariant Sections that are not allowed to be modified. (Debian
> > considers that this makes such works non-free.)
> >
> > The Linux Media Infrastructure userspace API documentation does not
> > specify any such sections, but it also doesn't say there are none (as
> > is recommended by the license text). Make it explicit that there are
> > none.
> >
> > References: https://bugs.debian.org/698668
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
>
> From my side:
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
>
> (I'm waiting for more SoBs before merging this)
>
> I pinged some developers that don't use to listen to the media ML
> as often as they used to do, and to the sub-maintainers, via the
> sub-mainainers ML, and got some SoBs. Let me add them to this thread:
>
> Gerd:
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
>
> Hans:
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
>
> Sylwester:
>
> Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <snawrocki@kernel.org>
>
> Johannes:
>
> "I think I didn't contribute to that documentation?
> Anyway, just in case: I agree with the change to
> forbid adding invariant sections."
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
>
> Ralph:
>
> "I also do not think there is anything left in there which I contributed.
> The original documentation up to 2002 probably is copyright of Convergence.
>
> But I agree with the change to forbid adding invariant sections regarding
> anything in that documentation that might be my copyright."
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Metzler <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
>
> Markus:
>
> "Ralph> I also do not think there is anything left in there which I
> Ralph> contributed. The original documentation up to 2002
> Ralph> probably is copyright of Convergence.
> The same is true for me.
>
> I also agree with the change to forbid adding invariant sections
> regarding anything in that documentation that might be my copyright."
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcus Metzler <mocm@metzlerbros.de>
Sean Young:
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
"Makes complete sense."
>
>
> > ---
> > Documentation/media/media_uapi.rst | 6 +++---
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/media/media_uapi.rst b/Documentation/media/media_uapi.rst
> > index 28eb35a1f965..5198ff24a094 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/media/media_uapi.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/media/media_uapi.rst
> > @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ Linux Media Infrastructure userspace API
> >
> > Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
> > under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
> > -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of
> > -the license is included in the chapter entitled "GNU Free Documentation
> > -License".
> > +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation, with no
> > +Invariant Sections. A copy of the license is included in the chapter
> > +entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
> >
> > .. only:: html
> >
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mauro
Thanks,
Mauro
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