[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 09:08:12 PST 2023
Also to clarify:
+1 to switching to CC BY-SA 4.0
+1 to relicense my past contributions
-jeff
On 2023-02-06 1:05 p.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
> +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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