[GeoNode-devel] Motion to change the license of the documentation to CC-by-SA 2.0

Jeffrey Johnson ortelius at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 14:48:01 PST 2015


Should be noted that currently the documentation would fall under GPL
with the rest of the source tree, but GPL is not really applicable to
documentation, hence the change.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm just going over the OSGeo incubation checklist with David Bitner.
> One thing it looks like we need to do is to change the license for the
> Documentation to something in the CC family. Seems like CC-by-SA 2.0
> is the closest to GPL.
>
> Not sure we have had to do this before, but according to your bylaws,
> the PSC is composed of the 7 highest committers in the last year.
> Based on this link,
> https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/graphs/contributors?from=2014-11-17&to=2015-11-17&type=c
> that is these people.
>
> Simone Dalmasso
> Paolo Corti
> Patrick Dufour
> Ariel Nunez
> Tyler Garner
> Tom Kralidis
> Paolo Pasquali
>
> And I dont even get a vote :)
>
> Please speak up ASAP so we can move this forward.
>
> Jeff


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