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Bug 705660 - Sys-admin help pages need licensing.
Sys-admin help pages need licensing.
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-user-docs
Classification: Core
Component: sysadmin-guide
3.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Maintainers of Gnome user documentation
Maintainers of Gnome user documentation
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-08-08 11:00 UTC by Aruna Sankaranarayanan
Modified: 2018-03-26 14:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Patch to (re)license sysadmin help pages under CC-by-SA (13.46 KB, patch)
2013-08-08 11:00 UTC, Aruna Sankaranarayanan
none Details | Review
New patch to relicense sysadmin help under CC-by-SA (12.18 KB, patch)
2013-08-12 20:45 UTC, Aruna Sankaranarayanan
none Details | Review
Patch to license sysadmin pages under CC-by-SA. Contents of root/COPYING have been changed suitably too. (12.29 KB, patch)
2013-08-13 07:51 UTC, Aruna Sankaranarayanan
rejected Details | Review

Description Aruna Sankaranarayanan 2013-08-08 11:00:06 UTC
Created attachment 251134 [details] [review]
Patch to (re)license sysadmin help pages under CC-by-SA

Hi Kat, Jana, Jeremy, Jim, Michael, Petr and Minnie. I noticed yesterday that some pages in the system-admin guide need to be (re)licensed under the CC-by-SA 3.0 Unported license.

Taking David's example from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703238
I have attached a patch here that (re)licenses all the pages under the CC-by-SA license. If you agree to have your work licensed under the CC-by-SA 3.0 Unported license, please examine the patch carefully and then follow these steps:

1. Apply the patch to your gnome-user-docs 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.

Once everyone has done this, I will apply the patch and push it to master.

Thank you. :)
Comment 1 Jeremy Bicha 2013-08-08 20:04:02 UTC
I don't think you need explicit sign-offs for this improvement since everything in the gnome-user-docs source tree is already CC-BY-SA 3.0.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-user-docs/tree/COPYING
Comment 2 Jim Campbell 2013-08-08 22:58:03 UTC
I tried applying the patch and it failed because it would not apply. My branch is fully up to date.

~/Public/docs/GNOME/gnome-user-docs/system-admin-guide/ git am 0001-Add-CC-by-SA-license-to-pages-that-need-licensing.patch
Applying: Add CC-by-SA license to pages that need licensing.
error: patch failed: system-admin-guide/C/background.page:5
error: system-admin-guide/C/background.page: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: system-admin-guide/C/backgrounds-extra.page:5
error: system-admin-guide/C/backgrounds-extra.page: patch does not apply
error: system-admin-guide/C/custom-default-values.page: does not exist in index
error: system-admin-guide/C/dconf-power-settings.page: does not exist in index
error: patch failed: system-admin-guide/C/dconf-profiles.page:5
error: system-admin-guide/C/dconf-profiles.page: patch does not apply
error: system-admin-guide/C/lockdown.page: does not exist in index
error: system-admin-guide/C/lockscreenbackground.page: does not exist in index
error: patch failed: system-admin-guide/C/login-background.page:5
error: system-admin-guide/C/login-background.page: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: system-admin-guide/C/login-banner.page:7
error: system-admin-guide/C/login-banner.page: patch does not apply
error: system-admin-guide/C/logo.page: does not exist in index
error: system-admin-guide/C/nfs-home-directories.page: does not exist in index
error: patch failed: system-admin-guide/C/servers-list.page:5
error: system-admin-guide/C/servers-list.page: patch does not apply
error: system-admin-guide/C/session-debug.page: does not exist in index
Patch failed at 0001 Add CC-by-SA license to pages that need licensing.
The copy of the patch that failed is found in:
   /home/jwc/Public/docs/GNOME/gnome-user-docs/.git/rebase-apply/patch
When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --resolved".
If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
Comment 3 Aruna Sankaranarayanan 2013-08-12 20:44:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't think you need explicit sign-offs for this improvement since everything
> in the gnome-user-docs source tree is already CC-BY-SA 3.0.
> 
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-user-docs/tree/COPYING

What do you suggest, instead? Can I directly push the patch to master?
Comment 4 Aruna Sankaranarayanan 2013-08-12 20:45:38 UTC
Created attachment 251423 [details] [review]
New patch to relicense sysadmin help under CC-by-SA

Sorry, I goofed up a bit with the git branches and forgot to cherry-pick. 

The new patch applies nicely, I've checked. Can someone else check and confirm if it's okay?
Comment 5 Kat 2013-08-12 21:06:31 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't think you need explicit sign-offs for this improvement since everything
> in the gnome-user-docs source tree is already CC-BY-SA 3.0.

CC-by-SA 3.0 United States and CC-by-SA 3.0 Unported have different terms and conditions attached to them, so all authors do indeed have to agree to this.
Comment 6 Jeremy Bicha 2013-08-12 22:21:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> CC-by-SA 3.0 United States and CC-by-SA 3.0 Unported have different terms and
> conditions attached to them, so all authors do indeed have to agree to this.

OK.

Aruna, can you update your patch to change COPYING from CC-BY 3.0 US to CC-BY-SA 3.0 too?
Comment 7 Aruna Sankaranarayanan 2013-08-13 07:51:59 UTC
Created attachment 251444 [details] [review]
Patch to license sysadmin pages under CC-by-SA. Contents of root/COPYING have been changed suitably too.

Kat, any idea why COPYING had a different license than the pages?

Jeremy, the attached patch updates the contents of root/COPYING too.
Comment 8 Kat 2013-08-13 07:53:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > CC-by-SA 3.0 United States and CC-by-SA 3.0 Unported have different terms and
> > conditions attached to them, so all authors do indeed have to agree to this.
> 
> OK.
> 
> Aruna, can you update your patch to change COPYING from CC-BY 3.0 US to
> CC-BY-SA 3.0 too?

That's not very practical because there are around 60 pages in gnome-help which don't have a license specified and some of the contributors are not around any more… :) To update COPYING, those authors would either need to be tracked down or the pages would need to be removed, so lets least keep that separate if you want to go down that path.
Comment 9 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-03-26 14:32:05 UTC
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