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Linus Torvalds 3e0cc09a3a Documentation: Add a file explaining the requested Linux kernel license enforcement policy
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>
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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
2017-10-18 06:47:59 -04:00
Documentation Documentation: Add a file explaining the Linux kernel license enforcement policy 2017-10-16 11:14:43 +02:00
arch Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-10-18 06:45:52 -04:00
block bio_copy_user_iov(): don't ignore ->iov_offset 2017-10-10 23:55:14 -04:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: shash - Fix zero-length shash ahash digest crash 2017-10-11 00:34:07 +08:00
drivers SCSI fixes on 20171017 2017-10-17 15:54:41 -04:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs fs/binfmt_misc.c: node could be NULL when evicting inode 2017-10-13 16:18:33 -07:00
include Char/Misc driver fixes for 4.14-rc5 2017-10-15 07:50:38 -04:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:20:38 -04:00
lib Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:14:20 -04:00
mm mm, swap: use page-cluster as max window of VMA based swap readahead 2017-10-13 16:18:33 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 16:25:00 -07:00
samples Testing a new trace event format, I triggered a bug by doing: 2017-10-18 06:43:30 -04:00
scripts scripts/kallsyms.c: ignore symbol type 'n' 2017-10-13 16:18:32 -07:00
security lsm: fix smack_inode_removexattr and xattr_getsecurity memleak 2017-10-04 18:03:15 +11:00
sound ALSA: caiaq: Fix stray URB at probe error path 2017-10-11 17:01:18 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:16:49 -04:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Another latent bug related to PCID, an out-of-bounds access, 2017-10-12 10:42:03 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc5 2017-10-15 21:01:12 -04:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

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.