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Bug 734708 - Relicence to CC-BY-SA
Relicence to CC-BY-SA
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-13 09:56 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch (1.95 KB, patch)
2014-08-13 10:37 UTC, Allan Day 		none Details | Review
patch (1.95 KB, patch)
2014-08-13 10:39 UTC, Allan Day 		committed Details | Review

Description Allan Day 2014-08-13 09:56:16 UTC 
The HIG is currently licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 [1]. The GNOME Documentation Team recommends CC-BY-SA as an alternative [2], and tries to avoid GFDL.

Relicensing to CC-BY-SA will make it easier for the HIG to comply with the terms of its licence, and will enable other works to incorporate material from the HIG.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/index-info.html.en
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Guide/Licensing
Comment 1 Allan Day 2014-08-13 10:37:28 UTC 
Created attachment 283261 [details] [review]
patch
Comment 2 Allan Day 2014-08-13 10:39:50 UTC 
Created attachment 283262 [details] [review]
patch
Comment 3 Allan Day 2014-08-14 09:23:31 UTC 
Copyright on the HIG is held by Calum Benson, Adam Elman, Seth Nickell, and colin z robertson. We'll need to get approval from all four in order to relicense.

Please comment here if you are a copyright holder and approve the relicense patch that is attached.
Comment 4 Allan Day 2014-08-14 09:34:37 UTC 
To provide a bit of back story for copyright holders - I'm working on a new version of the HIG, and I want to reuse material from the previous version. However, this will be very difficult - if not impossible - if we are unable to relicense. This would obviously be a big shame, because there's a lot of great work there that we'd like to reuse. Thanks!
Comment 5 Calum Benson 2014-08-14 13:11:38 UTC 
I give my consent to relicense.
Comment 6 Adam Elman 2014-08-14 14:18:47 UTC 
I give my consent to re license. Best of luck!!! :)
Comment 7 colin robertson 2014-08-14 19:05:42 UTC 
I give my consent to relicense. (FWIW -- I don't know whether a single line of my work remains in the HIG. It was the others who did all the work.)
Comment 8 Allan Day 2014-08-14 19:09:50 UTC 
Thanks everyone! Now I just need to track Seth down...
Comment 9 Seth Nickell 2014-08-15 22:23:49 UTC 
This is great! I'm absolutely on favor of this, and consent to the license change.I'm really glad you are picking this up Allan!
Comment 10 Allan Day 2014-08-15 22:32:13 UTC 
(In reply to comment #9)
> This is great! I'm absolutely on favor of this, and consent to the license
> change.I'm really glad you are picking this up Allan!

Fantastic! Thanks so much.