Dear PSC,
Background
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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
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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
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Will give 5 business days for responses.
Related Pull Request
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https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/796
Comments
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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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