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

Mon Feb 6 08:06:31 PST 2023

+1 to relicense mine (meager though they are)

Mike

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Michael Smith 
US Army Corps of Engineers 
Remote Sensing/GIS Center 

On 2/6/23, 11:04 AM, "Even Rouault" <even.rouault at spatialys.com <mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com>> wrote:

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 <mailto: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 <mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of Steve Lime <sdlime at gmail.com <mailto:sdlime at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Monday, February 6, 2023 at 9:49 AM
>> To: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
>> Cc: MapServer Dev Mailing List <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org <mailto: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 <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 <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 <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/ <https://creativecommons.org/version4/>
>> - read a short summary of the 4.0 license:
>> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ <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/ <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/ <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 <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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