[MapServer-dev] Missing license for the documentation repository

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

Playing the devil's advocate, I'm not sure we can upgrade the license 
that easily given that there's no copyright assignment to an entity (the 
PSC typically) that could make such decisions on behalf of contributors. 
Formally, past contributors have agreed to contribute to the terms of 
3.0 only, not necessarily 4.0. This is probably just nitpicking, and 
nobody will likely complain of a CC BY SA 3.0 -> CC BY SA 4.0 change, 
but I'd say at a minimum this should be conditioned to a formal PSC 
vote, so that the PSC holds the responsibility of the license version 
change.

Even

Le 06/02/2023 à 14:27, Jeff McKenna a écrit :
> As Jukka pointed out, it's a good time to upgrade to version 4.0 of 
> the license (handled through 
> https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/796 )
>
> Thanks all,
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2023-02-05 10:45 a.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> errr  (I'm having a bad day it seems)......the repo license is 
>> actually in /en/copyright.txt and covered by CC BY SA)
>>
>> Closing that Pull Request.
>>
>> Again, my apologies.  Darn.  I'll try to clarify this in the 
>> README.md now, instead.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2023-02-05 10:37 a.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> The MapServer-documentation repository is actually missing a 
>>> license.  I have created a Pull Request to add a license, which is 
>>> actually the CC BY 4.0 license :
>>>
>>>    - pull request: 
>>> https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/793
>>>    - about CC BY 4.0 : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
>>>
>>> This license was chosen because it is the most permissive 
>>> CreativeCommons license.
>>>
>>> I'm just sharing here, as most devs don't follow that issue tracker 
>>> for docs.
>>>
>>> (needless to say, all documentation requires a license, and our 
>>> MapServer Documentation repo is actually shared quite often in other 
>>> projects)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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