Re: [gentoo-dev] License of news items

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> 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.

Ulrich


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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/.
 
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