GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 705660
Sys-admin help pages need licensing.
Last modified: 2018-03-26 14:32:05 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. :)
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
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".
(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?
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?
(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.
(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?
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.
(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.
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