Just to make it clear:
+1 to switching to CC BY-SA 4.0 +1 to relicense my past contributions Jérome. De : [email protected] À : [email protected] Sujet : Re: [MapServer-dev] Motion: upgrade documentation license version from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0 Date : 06/02/2023 16:32:47 Europe/Paris +1 Jérome De : Jeff McKenna <[email protected]> À : MapServer Dev Mailing List <[email protected]> Sujet : [MapServer-dev] Motion: upgrade documentation license version from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0 Date : 06/02/2023 15:31:57 Europe/Paris 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 - 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 [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev
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