On 2018.01.26 18:46, Luigi Toscano wrote:
Il 27.01.2018 00:39 Jack ha scritto:
On 2018.01.26 17:46, Luigi Toscano wrote:
Il 26 gennaio 2018 23:01:26 CET, Jack Ostroff ha scritto:
Git commit 8d3de09e36098bcf926ed058962fc58cdeb74e11 by Jack
Ostroff.
Committed on 26/01/2018 at 22:01. Pushed by ostroffjh into branch
'5.0'. FDL -> CCBYSA4 for translations M +1 -1 doc/credits.docbook
https://commits.kde.org/kmymoney/8d3de09e36098bcf926ed058962fc58cdeb74e11
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This is not the credit for translations: it's the license of the
documentation itself. Did you get the permission to relicense from
all
past contributors of kmymoney documentation? Do you depend on the
kdoctools version that provides the entity? Ciai -- Luigi
Sorry - no, I have not gotten permission from other contributors. Do
I
need to revert those two changes (index.docbook and credits.docbook
both had changed FDL -> CCBYSA4) now, or can I wait to see if I can
get
permission. Also, if some earlier contributors can't be reached, does
that mean the change cannot be made as long as they are listed as
contributors to one of the included docbook files?
As mentioned in the other email: yes, please revert, see also below
for a more technical reason. If some contributors can't be reached,
the files can't be relicensed (does not matter if they are not listed
if the git history says that they contributed - but IANAL, I don't
know what is the boundary, for example if some section is cut out,
can the remaining part still be considered derived? Not sure).
Revert already done. Might I suggest that an additional comment be put
in template.docbook that the new doc license is for new docs, and only
for old ones if all contributors agree. It might save this type of
issue, although I don't know how common it is.
I'm now reading the KDE_Relicensing page on techbase, so I will see
about using the relicensecheck.pl script. I only see one entry in the
FDL -> CC-BY-SA 4.0 column. Does this imply that this change is only
likely to be made for new documents created since last year?
It was intended for new documents, and old documents need the
agreement.
Also, kmymoney requires still Frameworks 5.2, while the entity was
introduced much later. Even if you can relicense, you can't use the
entity from KDocTools if you require such a lower Frameworks, but you
can add a local entity or just write the content of the entity
directly.
Ah, even more reason not to change it now. I've asked other questions
about getting permission in the Phabricator entry, but I'll ask again
here - is there any suggested or sample email to send contributors
asking them for permission - including how they would go about actually
granting it and getting that into the relecensecheck.pl script,
assuming that is the actual repository of such permissions (which are
clearly wider than just the doc license issue.)
Jack
