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

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, Michał Górny wrote:

> On Sun, 2019-11-24 at 11:41 +0100, Ulrich Müller wrote:
>> +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.

I'd rather not, because version 4.0 is what Council and Trustees have
explicitly approved in GLEP 76.

We can discuss this again when there will be newer CC license versions.

Ulrich