Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-{0001,0002}: New GLEPs are to be licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 2019-11-24 at 11:41 +0100, Ulrich Müller wrote:
> GLEP 76 says that new documentation must be released under CC-BY-SA
> version 4.0. Update the guidelines (GLEP 1) and the template (GLEP 2)
> to agree with this policy.
>
> Drop the wording about older GLEPs in the public domain or released
> under the OPL, because all of them have been updated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o>
> ---
>  glep-0001.rst | 23 ++++++++++-------------
>  glep-0002.rst | 12 ++++++------
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/glep-0001.rst b/glep-0001.rst
> index 15deccb..61a08a4 100644
> --- a/glep-0001.rst
> +++ b/glep-0001.rst
> @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ Author: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>,
>          Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o>
>  Type: Informational
>  Status: Active
> -Version: 3
> +Version: 4
>  Created: 2003-05-31
>  Last-Modified: 2019-11-24
>  Post-History: 2003-06-01, 2003-07-02, 2008-01-19, 2008-06-05, 2011-03-09,
> -              2013-12-14, 2017-09-17, 2018-07-10
> +              2013-12-14, 2017-09-17, 2018-07-10, 2019-11-24
>  Content-Type: text/x-rst
>  ---
>
> @@ -211,13 +211,10 @@ Each GLEP should have the following parts:
>     specification and rationale first and reach consensus on it before writing
>     code or significantly modifying ebuilds.
>
> -8. Copyright -- Every new GLEP must be explicitly labelled
> -   as licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA)
> -   license, version 3.0 [#CC-BY-SA3.0]_. Older GLEPs in the public domain
> -   should be relicensed to CC-BY-SA 3.0 when they are updated.
> -   GLEPs released under the Open Publication License (OPL) may remain
> -   as-is, but are strongly encouraged to be relicensed under CC-BY-SA
> -   3.0 with the consent of all authors.
> +8. Copyright -- Every new GLEP must be explicitly labelled as licensed under
> +   the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
> +   (CC-BY-SA-4.0) [#CC-BY-SA-4.0]_.  Older GLEPs released under CC-BY-SA-3.0
> +   should be relicensed to CC-BY-SA-4.0 when they are updated.

I wonder if we should explicitly allow using a newer version, or maybe
even reword it to the 'latest version' or something like that, so we
don't have to update it whenever new license version is released.

>
>
>  GLEP Formating and Template
> @@ -374,7 +371,7 @@ References and Footnotes
>
>  .. [#COUNCIL] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0039.html
>
> -.. [#CC-BY-SA3.0] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
> +.. [#CC-BY-SA-4.0] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
>
>  .. [#ReSTHOME] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
>
> @@ -388,6 +385,6 @@ References and Footnotes
>  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/.
> diff --git a/glep-0002.rst b/glep-0002.rst
> index 67ce3ce..6ef72ca 100644
> --- a/glep-0002.rst
> +++ b/glep-0002.rst
> @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ Author: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>,
>          Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o>
>  Type: Informational
>  Status: Active
> -Version: 3
> +Version: 4
>  Created: 2003-05-31
>  Last-Modified: 2019-11-24
> -Post-History: 2003-06-02, 2013-12-17, 2017-09-17
> +Post-History: 2003-06-02, 2013-12-17, 2017-09-17, 2019-11-24
>  Content-Type: text/x-rst
>  ---
>
> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ directions below.
>
>  - Update your References section.  You should leave the Copyright section
>    as-is, since all new GLEPs are to be licensed under the Creative Commons
> -  Attribution-ShareAlike License, Version 3.0.
> +  Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA-4.0).
>
>  - Send your GLEP submission to the GLEP editors at glep@g.o.
>
> @@ -602,6 +602,6 @@ 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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Best regards,
Michał Górny