Content licenses

[bkmgit]

Maybe worth adding licenses for content, see for example https://reuse.software/dev/

[BonfaceKilz]

I noticed that we don't have a license for a our main website; and Benson was gracious enough to point that out! Thanks.

Benson Muite @.***> aliandika:

Maybe worth adding licenses for content,

That license should we adopt? Opinions are welcome. I'd be glad to add one them once we settle on something that's (a) copy-left; (b) GPL compliant; and (c) makes majority of this community happy. Other opinions/requirements are welcome. I would propose:

• CC-BY-SA-4.0 - For all the markdown content and images related to them (all our posts).

• CC0-1.0 - For minor things like ".gitignore", ".gitmodules" and pictures.

• GPL-3.0-or-later - For code and configuration files.

Next step is to get consent from the (living) authors who already wrote something, then I'll add the license. That said...

see for example https://reuse.software/dev/

I've skimmed "reuse" and it seems quite useful. In fact, I've already annotated all the files and after running:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- reuse lint --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I get:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

SUMMARY

• Bad licenses:
• Deprecated licenses:
• Licenses without file extension:
• Missing licenses:
• Unused licenses:
• Used licenses: CC-BY-SA-4.0, CC0-1.0, GPL-3.0-or-later
• Read errors: 0
• Files with copyright information: 95 / 95
• Files with license information: 95 / 95

Congratulations! Your project is compliant with version 3.0 of the REUSE Specification :-) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Of course I've made assumptions about the licensing stuff already. I'll create a PR some time later this week for other people to review and comment on and get feedback. I'll also raise this on the main channel.

This licensing business should be an entire blog post of it's own ;)

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