Hi Even,
Thanks for your quick feedback. As mentioned by Jukka, the 4.0 series
was released to handle copyleft trolls, and makes many improvements,
which I believe are worth while for the hassle of upgrading to 4.0.
Therefore as you mentioned, I will begin a motion in a separate thread,
to the PSC. Thanks for the quick feedback on this.
-jeff
On 2023-02-06 9:35 a.m., Even Rouault wrote:
Hi,
Playing the devil's advocate, I'm not sure we can upgrade the license
that easily given that there's no copyright assignment to an entity (the
PSC typically) that could make such decisions on behalf of contributors.
Formally, past contributors have agreed to contribute to the terms of
3.0 only, not necessarily 4.0. This is probably just nitpicking, and
nobody will likely complain of a CC BY SA 3.0 -> CC BY SA 4.0 change,
but I'd say at a minimum this should be conditioned to a formal PSC
vote, so that the PSC holds the responsibility of the license version
change.
Even
Le 06/02/2023 à 14:27, Jeff McKenna a écrit :
As Jukka pointed out, it's a good time to upgrade to version 4.0 of
the license (handled through
https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/796 )
Thanks all,
-jeff
On 2023-02-05 10:45 a.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
errr (I'm having a bad day it seems)......the repo license is
actually in /en/copyright.txt and covered by CC BY SA)
Closing that Pull Request.
Again, my apologies. Darn. I'll try to clarify this in the
README.md now, instead.
-jeff
On 2023-02-05 10:37 a.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
Hi devs,
The MapServer-documentation repository is actually missing a
license. I have created a Pull Request to add a license, which is
actually the CC BY 4.0 license :
- pull request:
https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/793
- about CC BY 4.0 : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This license was chosen because it is the most permissive
CreativeCommons license.
I'm just sharing here, as most devs don't follow that issue tracker
for docs.
(needless to say, all documentation requires a license, and our
MapServer Documentation repo is actually shared quite often in other
projects)
Thanks,
-jeff
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