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

[Steve Lime]

I'm +1 on relicensing my contributions - looks like I used 3 email
addresses.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 8:49 AM Steve Lime <sdlime at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 - thanks Jeff!
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 8:31 AM Jeff McKenna <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
>> 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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