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

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Mon Feb 6 09:05:54 PST 2023


+1 to relicense my contributions.

For the record I believe the first 5 years or so of my contributions 
were under the username "msdoc", without any email association.

-jeff



On 2023-02-06 12:04 p.m., 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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-- 
Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/



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