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

Mon Feb 6 08:04:24 PST 2023

The following git magic (suggested by "man git blame"):

  (for i in `find . -name "*.txt"`; do git blame -w --line-porcelain $i; 
done) | sed -n 's/^author-mail //p' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn| sed 
"s/@.*/ at /"

(the final sed is to strip the domain name of the email to avoid 
spamming the below persons)

shows the number of lines lastly modified (and which aren't just white 
space changes) per contributor are:

   51475 <gislars at
   19172 <jmckenna at
   18465 <havard.tveite at
    8247 <thomas.bonfort at
    2391 <jeffmckenna at
    2238 <even.rouault at
    1824 <sethg at
    1808 <even.rouault at
    1795 <aboudreault at
    1652 <wbprime at
    1557 <szekerest at
    1446 <jbo-ads at
    1288 <dmorissette at
    1107 <stephan.meissl at
     952 <sdlime at
     887 <assefa at
     881 <jerome.je.boue.external at
     837 <halmueller at
     756 <warmerdam at
     678 <yves.jacolin at
     661 <maddenp at
     401 <jlarouche at
     357 <fabian.schindler.strauss at
     296 <tomkralidis at
     286 <stephan at
     284 <lars at
     271 <steve.lime at
     241 <geographika at
     240 <havard.tveite at
     231 <hobu.inc at
     190 <jbo-ads at
     187 <yecarrillo at
     184 <fabian.schindler at
     174 <yjacolin at
     172 <thomas_gratier at
     169 <sdlime at
     157 <tchaddad at
     156 <cbourget at
     152 <pcorti at
     149 <olivier.courtin at
     146 <dmiddlecamp at
     138 <mathieu.coudert at
     124 <fdesjarlais1 at
     122 <tomkralidis at
      87 <pramsey at
      85 <martin.kofahl at
      80 <danlittle at
      74 <sdlime at
      65 <tommy.hellstrom at
      65 <s-axel at
      55 <maris.gis at
      46 <thomas at
      44 <havard at
      38 <aaronr at
      37 <sarah at
      36 <robert-jan at
      27 <jpass at
      21 <andrea.borghi at
      19 <lars.schylberg at
      18 <sirvio at
      17 <dbaston at
      15 <hrz at
      15 <edward.nash at
      12 <33540878+SunveerSingh at
      11 <pschmitt at
       9 <antony.scott at
       9 <59861665+andreassteiner97 at
       8 <tudor.barascu at
       8 <e.nash at
       7 <olt at
       7 <michael.smith at
       7 <david.hoese at
       4 <st at
       4 <stephane.cyr at
       4 <pnaciona at
       4 <34955127+ShivamRai2003 at
       3 <ulrich.meier at
       3 <danduk82 at
       2 <tangyizz at
       2 <r.j.bijl at
       2 <mn at
       2 <martin.icking at
       2 <iljya.kalai at
       1 <umberto.nicoletti at
       1 <renzok at
       1 <oliver.christen at
       1 <lubomir.bucek at
       1 <jonathan.virga at
       1 <daniel.teske at
       1 <3x0dv5 at

+1 to relicense my past contributions.

Le 06/02/2023 à 16:42, Howard Butler a écrit :
> Mike,
>
> Since I brought it up to you...
>
> We can't retroactively apply CC BY-SA 4.0 to content that was previously contributed under 3.0 without asking those contributors for acknowledgement that they wish to allow that. The Fedora situation is a little different because people were signing a CLA that gave the project the right to retroactively do this.
>
> Given that the bulk of documentation contributors is voting +1 to this motion, I don't think this matters so much, but if there are large docs or tutorials that have authors that aren't represented here, we should reach out to cover our future selves from some headache.
>
> Howard
>
>> On Feb 6, 2023, at 9:38 AM, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have been informed though that one change the default contribution of content GOING FORWARD, but you can't retroactively change the license of content ALREADY CONTRIBUTED without acknowledgment by the contributors of that change.
>>
>> Do we plan to seek that from the contributors?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Michael Smith
>> US Army Corps of Engineers
>> Remote Sensing/GIS Center
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: MapServer-dev <mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Steve Lime <sdlime at gmail.com>
>> Date: Monday, February 6, 2023 at 9:49 AM
>> To: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
>> Cc: MapServer Dev Mailing List <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [MapServer-dev] Motion: upgrade documentation license version from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0
>>
>> +1 - thanks Jeff!
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 8:31 AM Jeff McKenna <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>> Dear PSC,
>>
>> Background
>> ----------
>>
>> Through recent clarifications made for the MapServer-documentation
>> GitHub repository, as well as the visible 'copyright' page on
>> http://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://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299
>>    - international translations of the license
>>    - improved readability
>>      - read more about "what's new" in the 4.0 series at
>> https://creativecommons.org/version4/
>>      - read a short summary of the 4.0 license:
>> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
>>
>> 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://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/policy-proposal-update-default-content-license-to-cc-by-sa-4-0/
>>     - read about the Fedora announcement of the CC BY-SA 4.0 default
>> license:
>> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedoras-default-license-for-content-is-now-cc-by-sa-4-0/
>>
>> Motion to the PSC
>> -----------------
>>
>> 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
>> --------------------
>>
>> Will give 5 business days for responses.
>>
>> Related Pull Request
>> --------------------
>>
>> https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/796
>>
>> Comments
>> --------
>>
>> 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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