Re: [gentoo-dev] License of news items

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 26 Dec 2020, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

>>>>> On Sat, 26 Dec 2020, Michał Górny wrote:
>> On Sat, 2020-12-26 at 10:20 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>> Alternatively, we could add a new header line with license
>>> information to the items themselves, but that would be more
>>> complicated with (IMHO) little gain.

>> For better consistency, we could also add a 'License' tag to the news
>> items.

> Yeah, but see what I had said above.

> However, if the consensus is that we should have such a line, see
> attached patch for GLEP 42.

Coming back to this old thread. There were no more replies, but I don't
feel like merging this patch after such a long time, unless there would
be more support for it.

So, any further opinions?

Note that the README file (mentioned previously in this thread) is in
place: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/README

Ulrich


> From 51a81ad6b4d43ce9d79dbd9db4ef1effffc864b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <ulm@g.o>
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:12:40 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] glep-0042: News item format 2.1 has a "License" header.
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o>
> ---
>  glep-0042.rst | 20 ++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/glep-0042.rst b/glep-0042.rst
> index 0c40261..feb87ee 100644
> --- a/glep-0042.rst
> +++ b/glep-0042.rst
> @@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ Type: Standards Track
>  Status: Final
>  Version: 4
>  Created: 2005-10-31
> -Last-Modified: 2019-11-07
> +Last-Modified: 2020-12-26
>  Post-History: 2005-11-01, 2005-11-05, 2005-11-07, 2005-12-11, 2005-12-13,
>                2005-12-18, 2006-01-05, 2006-03-02, 2006-03-06, 2006-06-12,
> -              2006-09-05, 2016-03-10, 2017-11-27
> +              2006-09-05, 2016-03-10, 2017-11-27, 2020-12-26
>  Content-Type: text/x-rst
>  ---
>
> @@ -231,6 +231,10 @@ The following headers describe the purpose and format of the news item:
>      For translated news items, the translator's name and email address. Multiple
>      translator headers may be specified if appropriate.
>
> +``License:``
> +    Only in news item format ``2.1`` and later, where it is mandatory and must
> +    be ``CC-BY-SA-4.0``.
> +
>  ``Content-Type:``
>      Only in news item format ``1.0``, where it is mandatory and must be
>      ``text/plain``.
> @@ -247,9 +251,9 @@ The following headers describe the purpose and format of the news item:
>      item. Mandatory.
>
>  ``News-Item-Format:``
> -    Known formats are ``1.0`` and ``2.0``.  Future revisions to the format
> -    may increment the minor number for forwards-compatible changes (i.e.,
> -    still allowing older tools to process the new format), or the major
> +    Known formats are ``1.0``, ``2.0`` and ``2.1``.  Future revisions to the
> +    format may increment the minor number for forwards-compatible changes
> +    (i.e., still allowing older tools to process the new format), or the major
>      number for major changes.
>
>  The following headers are used for filtering:
> @@ -519,8 +523,8 @@ References
>  Copyright
>  =========
>
> -This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
> -Unported License.  To view a copy of this license, visit
> -https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
> +This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
> +International License.  To view a copy of this license, visit
> +https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.
>
>  .. vim: set tw=80 fileencoding=utf-8 spell spelllang=en et :
> --
>
> 2.29.2