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Bug 631208 - [Tracker] GLEPs with license issues
Summary: [Tracker] GLEPs with license issues
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: GLEP Changes (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: GLEP Editors
URL:
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Keywords: Tracker
Depends on: 636358 636360 636362 636364 636526 636530
Blocks:
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Reported: 2017-09-17 15:54 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2017-11-09 14:16 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2017-09-17 15:54:38 UTC
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:1 says:
| Copyright -- Every new GLEP must be explicitly labelled as licensed under
| the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license, version 3.0.
| Older GLEPs in the public domain should be relicensed to CC-BY-SA 3.0 when
| they are moved to the Wiki. GLEPs released under the Open Publication
| License (OPL) may remain as-is, but are strongly encouraged to be relicensed
| under CC-BY-SA 3.0 with the consent of all authors. 

Apparently all GLEPs in the public domain have been relicensed, so at this point there should only remain CC-BY-SA-3.0 and OPL-1.0.

However, the following GLEPs have no license at all:

    GLEP: 4
    Title: Gentoo top-level management structure proposal
    Author: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>

    GLEP: 10
    Title: Localized Gentoo Sites
    Author: Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@gentoo.org>,
            Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org>

    GLEP: 35
    Title: Automated consistency check for ebuilds
    Author: Adrian Lambeck <adrian@basicsedv.de>,

    GLEP: 64
    Title: Export PMS's cached VDB information
    Author: Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>

The following is licensed under CC-BY-SA-1.0, which is a free license, but cannot be upgraded to 3.0 without the authors' consent:

    GLEP: 20
    Title: /srv - Services Home Directory Support
    Author: Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>,
            Rob Holland <tigger@gentoo.org>

Finally, the following says that it's "released under the Open Publications License" which doesn't exist. I think the reasonable assumption is that this is a typo and that we can simply correct it to say OPL. (Though it would be preferable to relicense this to CC-BY-SA-3.0 too.)

    GLEP: 12
    Title: Gentoo.org Finger Daemon
    Author: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gentoo.org>


CCing all authors listed above, as far as they are known to Bugzilla. Would you agree to (re-)license your GLEP under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License?
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2017-10-12 12:17:31 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=229d3e0d51d746f0a15d7c9795343dcc9a0dea0d

commit 229d3e0d51d746f0a15d7c9795343dcc9a0dea0d
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2017-10-12 12:14:38 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2017-10-12 12:14:38 +0000

    glep-0064: Add standard license footer.
    
    Acked by blueness in bug 633964.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/631208

 glep-0064.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)}
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2017-10-18 11:38:46 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=cad83f59845cbc5a7f3edbfae902255264517402

commit cad83f59845cbc5a7f3edbfae902255264517402
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2017-10-13 19:55:07 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2017-10-18 11:37:38 +0000

    glep-0012: Fix typo in license name.
    
    An "Open Publications License" does not exist. The most reasonable
    assumption seems that this is a typo for "Open Publication License".
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/631208

 glep-0012.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)}
Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2017-11-03 10:39:24 UTC
Converting this bug into a tracker. I am going to file individual bugs for the remaining GLEPs.
Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2017-11-09 14:16:10 UTC
All done. Closing.