GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 703238
Please clarify what license the help is under
Last modified: 2013-08-08 11:23:03 UTC
The old help was licensed under the GFDL. The new help doesn't mention what license it's under. Most of the new Mallard help for GNOME apps uses the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. On the other hand it looks like the overall license for cheese is the GPL-2+. Please explicitly state what license the help files are under.
Created attachment 247976 [details] [review] initial patch to license help under CC-BY-SA 3.0 Hi Jeremy, thanks for investigating the licensing problem (and also bug 703239). I have attached a patch which (re)licenses the help under CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported. I will ask the contributors to the help to add their signoffs to the patch, and then commit and push it. That way, the signoffs will appear in the generated ChangeLog, NEWS file and git commit log. Would that be sufficient for making the help license explicit?
David, thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.
Hello Julita, Mike, Tiffany, Kat and Jeremy. You are contributors to the Cheese help, and I need your agreement to place the help under a license (as you can see from comment #0, the licensing is currently unclear). Please examine the attached patch, and if you agree that your contributions to the Cheese help can be (re)licensed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license, and that the patch does this, then proceed as follows: 1. Apply the patch to your cheese clone: "git am <patchname>" 2. Signoff the patch: "git format-patch -1 --signoff" 3. Attach the patch to this bug and obsolete the old patch. You can also do the above manually if you wish, by adding "Signed-off-by: Your Name <your.email@example.com>" to the end of the commit message in the patch. Once all of you have done this, I will commit the signed-off patch and push it. Thank you!
Created attachment 247982 [details] [review] patch to license help under CC-BY-SA 3.0
Created attachment 248002 [details] [review] signed off
Note that you might also want to check if the .po translation files for the help have any kind of comment in their headers so you don't end up with translations having an incompatible license compared with the English help itself.
Created attachment 248006 [details] [review] signed off
Created attachment 248509 [details] [review] sign off
Thanks to all who have signed off so far. I will organise relicensing of the translations soon (as some are described as being under the same license as the Cheese package, not the same license as the documentation). Julita, you are the last person who needs to sign off on the license change. You can use whichever email address you choose to do the signoff, but I am making a Cheese release tomorrow and it would be great to have the licensing problem cleared up by then.
Already done http://lleksah.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/using-git-to-sign-off-a-patch/ sorry for the delay
(In reply to comment #10) > Already done > http://lleksah.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/using-git-to-sign-off-a-patch/ > sorry for the delay You need to attach the patch here and to obsolete the older version :)
Created attachment 250963 [details] [review] Patch-jinca I attached the patch you asked. Thank you, Julita
Comment on attachment 250963 [details] [review] Patch-jinca Thanks everyone (especially Julita for writing the help in the first place!). I have pushed the patch to master as commit 60ae14617d9b9190cc8bd931dba849aa50c7b942. I will file a different bug for the inconsistent help translation licensing.