[MapServer-dev] Missing license for the documentation repository

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Even,

Thanks for your quick feedback.  As mentioned by Jukka, the 4.0 series 
was released to handle copyleft trolls, and makes many improvements, 
which I believe are worth while for the hassle of upgrading to 4.0. 
Therefore as you mentioned, I will begin a motion in a separate thread, 
to the PSC.  Thanks for the quick feedback on this.

-jeff



On 2023-02-06 9:35 a.m., Even Rouault wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>