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r-three / common-pile

Repo to hold code and track issues for the collection of permissively licensed data
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Linux Kernel Mailing List #65

Closed nkandpa2 closed 5 months ago

nkandpa2 commented 6 months ago

The Linux kernel is under a GPLv2 license. I'm not sure what this means for the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) though. This mailing list is how the Linux dev community solicits and communicates code changes to the kernel. It's a nice combination of people talking about code changes and actual code changes.

In total, this is around 5M emails and could easily be a couple billion tokens. Does anyone have any insight into the license status of the mailing list? I have been unable to find anything online but it feels like something that would/should be permissively licensed.

craffel commented 5 months ago

Since we are mostly speculating about the license, let's punt this for now - can always revisit if we find out it's indeed permissively licensed in some way.