[MapServer-dev] Motion: upgrade documentation license version from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0

[Rahkonen Jukka]

+1

-Jukka Rahkonen-

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Lähettäjä: MapServer-dev <mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> Puolesta Jeff McKenna
Lähetetty: maanantai 6. helmikuuta 2023 16.32
Vastaanottaja: 'MapServer Dev Mailing List' <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Aihe: [MapServer-dev] Motion: upgrade documentation license version from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0

Dear PSC,

Background
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Through recent clarifications made for the MapServer-documentation GitHub repository, as well as the visible 'copyright' page on mapserver.org, it was pointed out that the documentation uses an old CC BY-SA version, 3.0, that was released in 2007, whereas a more complete license version 4.0 has been available since 2013.

The CC BY-SA 4.0 license was released to tackle some issues such as:
  - international law / global scope
  - prevent copyleft trolls
    - to prevent: 
https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoctorow.medium.com%2Fa-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299&data=05%7C01%7Cjukka.rahkonen%40maanmittauslaitos.fi%7C759c811b52a444e8b3f208db084eda3f%7Cc4f8a63255804a1c92371d5a571b71fa%7C0%7C0%7C638112906980719156%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3rmFrLP7%2Ftf5SpNmY9NbZNeLVkJGXa6NnSNO4jc79qM%3D&reserved=0
  - international translations of the license
  - improved readability
    - read more about "what's new" in the 4.0 series at
https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Fversion4%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cjukka.rahkonen%40maanmittauslaitos.fi%7C759c811b52a444e8b3f208db084eda3f%7Cc4f8a63255804a1c92371d5a571b71fa%7C0%7C0%7C638112906980875397%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TVQOQd9SEk59jiYjduZclhyOPhBrO%2FI1ju2uEj2iW54%3D&reserved=0
    - read a short summary of the 4.0 license: 
https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby-sa%2F4.0%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cjukka.rahkonen%40maanmittauslaitos.fi%7C759c811b52a444e8b3f208db084eda3f%7Cc4f8a63255804a1c92371d5a571b71fa%7C0%7C0%7C638112906980875397%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=OwZ0LshHKHIj7rofkWuAkabfFVdnRHxpM6EQcAn%2B%2BJs%3D&reserved=0

I believe that this is a good time to upgrade the MapServer-documentation license to version 4.0

The Fedora project also recently upgraded from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0 :
   - read about the benefits of upgrading, for the Fedora project: 
https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunityblog.fedoraproject.org%2Fpolicy-proposal-update-default-content-license-to-cc-by-sa-4-0%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cjukka.rahkonen%40maanmittauslaitos.fi%7C759c811b52a444e8b3f208db084eda3f%7Cc4f8a63255804a1c92371d5a571b71fa%7C0%7C0%7C638112906980875397%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KD4jtYghG9wVq4wVrKrmUDEBRrmvELm5PSmnyTDW3eY%3D&reserved=0
   - read about the Fedora announcement of the CC BY-SA 4.0 default
license: 
https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunityblog.fedoraproject.org%2Ffedoras-default-license-for-content-is-now-cc-by-sa-4-0%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cjukka.rahkonen%40maanmittauslaitos.fi%7C759c811b52a444e8b3f208db084eda3f%7Cc4f8a63255804a1c92371d5a571b71fa%7C0%7C0%7C638112906980875397%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=setNthiha0SH9f6cjJj6CqW6jZ2%2BIn77LKLYEIUrtVg%3D&reserved=0

Motion to the PSC
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I therefore motion to the MapServer PSC that the MapServer-documentation license should be upgraded from CC BY-SA 3.0 to CC BY-SA 4.0

Motion voting window
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Will give 5 business days for responses.

Related Pull Request
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https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FMapServer%2FMapServer-documentation%2Fpull%2F796&data=05%7C01%7Cjukka.rahkonen%40maanmittauslaitos.fi%7C759c811b52a444e8b3f208db084eda3f%7Cc4f8a63255804a1c92371d5a571b71fa%7C0%7C0%7C638112906980875397%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=w2eyS3ucVTz5CIah%2FpI942upg5SqHRdHRtPkilPctXM%3D&reserved=0

Comments
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I believe this is good timing, to review the original documentation license, before the imminent MapServer 8.0.1 release.


Thank-you for your passion, to share,

-jeff




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