<div dir="ltr">I'm +1 on relicensing my contributions - looks like I used 3 email addresses.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 8:49 AM Steve Lime <<a href="mailto:sdlime@gmail.com">sdlime@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1 - thanks Jeff!<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 8:31 AM Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear PSC,<br>
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Background<br>
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Through recent clarifications made for the MapServer-documentation <br>
GitHub repository, as well as the visible 'copyright' page on <br>
<a href="http://mapserver.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mapserver.org</a>, it was pointed out that the documentation uses an old CC <br>
BY-SA version, 3.0, that was released in 2007, whereas a more complete <br>
license version 4.0 has been available since 2013.<br>
<br>
The CC BY-SA 4.0 license was released to tackle some issues such as:<br>
  - international law / global scope<br>
  - prevent copyleft trolls<br>
    - to prevent: <br>
<a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299</a><br>
  - international translations of the license<br>
  - improved readability<br>
    - read more about "what's new" in the 4.0 series at <br>
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/version4/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/version4/</a><br>
    - read a short summary of the 4.0 license: <br>
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/</a><br>
<br>
I believe that this is a good time to upgrade the <br>
MapServer-documentation license to version 4.0<br>
<br>
The Fedora project also recently upgraded from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0 :<br>
   - read about the benefits of upgrading, for the Fedora project: <br>
<a href="https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/policy-proposal-update-default-content-license-to-cc-by-sa-4-0/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/policy-proposal-update-default-content-license-to-cc-by-sa-4-0/</a><br>
   - read about the Fedora announcement of the CC BY-SA 4.0 default <br>
license: <br>
<a href="https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedoras-default-license-for-content-is-now-cc-by-sa-4-0/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedoras-default-license-for-content-is-now-cc-by-sa-4-0/</a><br>
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Motion to the PSC<br>
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I therefore motion to the MapServer PSC that the MapServer-documentation <br>
license should be upgraded from CC BY-SA 3.0 to CC BY-SA 4.0<br>
<br>
Motion voting window<br>
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Will give 5 business days for responses.<br>
<br>
Related Pull Request<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/796" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/796</a><br>
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Comments<br>
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I believe this is good timing, to review the original documentation <br>
license, before the imminent MapServer 8.0.1 release.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thank-you for your passion, to share,<br>
<br>
-jeff<br>
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