+1 for moving to CC BY-SA 4.0 Mike
-- Michael Smith US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing/GIS Center On 2/6/23, 9:31 AM, "MapServer-dev on behalf of Jeff McKenna" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear PSC, Background ---------- 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 <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/ <https://creativecommons.org/version4/> - read a short summary of the 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ <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/ <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/ <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 <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 _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev> _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev
