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

[Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 01:08:29PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> 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

I agree that not doing it now is wise. Aside from the trustees and council
having approved it, I would be concerned that some breaking change in legalase
is done. e.g. GPLv2 vs GPLv3.

I am not trying to debate the validity of said licenses, but ensure that we do
not "blindly" accept changes we, as a distro, agree with.

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Cheers,
Aaron

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