[MapServer-dev] Motion: upgrade documentation license version from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0
Daniel Morissette
dmorissette at mapgears.com
Mon Feb 6 08:36:20 PST 2023
+1 to switching to CC BY-SA 4.0 going forward,
and +1 to relicense my past contributions and those of Mapgears employees:
dmorissette, aboudreault, jlarouche, cbourget, fdesjarlais
Daniel
On 2023-02-06 11:04, Even Rouault 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> 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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