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relicensing effort tracking issue

Open olafklingt opened this issue 2 years ago • 8 comments
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Moving tutorials out of the reference manuals requires relicensing them from nixpkgs' MIT to this repo's CC-BY-SA.

This needs agreement by all authors of the materials in question.

Here are collections of articles we may want to extract and add to nix.dev:

  • https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7769
  • Nixpkgs manual? (TODO)
  • NixOS manual? (TODO)
  • [ ] guide/checklist for finding authors

Here is a list of similar efforts in the past:

TODO @asymmetric

olafklingt avatar Mar 22 '23 18:03 olafklingt

An alternative is to note the license per article in case it doesn't match. This would make a lot of things easier, especially for Nixpkgs and NixOS manuals, which have a lot of authors.

@domenkozar does anything speak against that?

fricklerhandwerk avatar Mar 22 '23 21:03 fricklerhandwerk

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2023-03-21-documentation-team-meeting-notes-34/26619/1

nixos-discourse avatar Mar 22 '23 21:03 nixos-discourse

I think ideally we'd re-license to make things easier. Hopefully CC-BY-SA is not controversial :)

domenkozar avatar Mar 23 '23 11:03 domenkozar

Discussed in the Nix documentation team meeting:

Suggestion by @infinisil: when moving a piece of documentation in to the CC realm, ping all the authors and wait for their public approval to relicense.

We need instructions/guidance how to get author information so it's not too much friction for those who attempt the migration.

@asymmetric: We don't have to be blocked on relicesing if we import under the existing license. Can change the license later down the road.

fricklerhandwerk avatar Apr 11 '23 11:04 fricklerhandwerk

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2023-04-11-documentation-team-meeting-notes-40/27261/1

nixos-discourse avatar Apr 13 '23 21:04 nixos-discourse

We can also prepend each non-CC file with its MIT license, in a comment. It's very short.

asymmetric avatar May 21 '23 15:05 asymmetric

For me this is blocked by nix.dev becoming official, both in theory and in practice (i.e. looks, content)

asymmetric avatar May 21 '23 16:05 asymmetric

If migrating content, with permission we still have to track contributors by content, what is the value of license migration?

I mean, options:

  1. We have a footnote with all contributors + the effort to make them accept the new license,
  2. We have a footnote with all contributors + old license.

hugosenari avatar May 28 '24 02:05 hugosenari