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 <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Lime <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 6, 2023 at 9:49 AM To: Jeff McKenna <[email protected]> Cc: MapServer Dev Mailing List <[email protected]> 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:[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list mailto:[email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev
