Re: [gentoo-dev] License of news items

[Michał Górny]

On Sat, 2020-12-26 at 10:20 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> The gentoo-news repository requires a Signed-off-by line in the
> commit,
> while news items don't have any license information. So technically,
> these commits aren't compliant with GLEP 76.
>
> The simplest way to fix this would be adding a README file in the
> top-level dir of the repository, see patch below.
>
> This would apply retroactively since 2018-10-21 (when GLEP 76 was
> marked
> as Active). I am going to file a bug for authors to acknowledge that
> their news items can be distributed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.
>
> 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.
>
> Ulrich
>
>
> From 43a9e1d8c9e06bb35e7dd754bf211aa205f98dc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <ulm@g.o>
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 09:59:44 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Add README file with copyright and license
> information.
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o>
> ---
>  README | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 README
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..63cbead
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/README
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +Copyright of Gentoo news items is held by their respective authors
> +and translators.
> +
> +All news items committed after 2018-10-21 are licensed under the
> +Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
> +Visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ to view a copy
> +of this license.

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

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Best regards,
Michał Górny