On Sat, 2020-12-26 at 10:20 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > The gentoo-news repository requires a Signed-off-by line in the > commit, > while news items don't have any license information. So technically, > these commits aren't compliant with GLEP 76. > > The simplest way to fix this would be adding a README file in the > top-level dir of the repository, see patch below. > > This would apply retroactively since 2018-10-21 (when GLEP 76 was > marked > as Active). I am going to file a bug for authors to acknowledge that > their news items can be distributed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. > > Alternatively, we could add a new header line with license > information > to the items themselves, but that would be more complicated with > (IMHO) > little gain. > > Ulrich > > > From 43a9e1d8c9e06bb35e7dd754bf211aa205f98dc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 > 2001 > From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <u...@gentoo.org> > Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 09:59:44 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Add README file with copyright and license > information. > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <u...@gentoo.org> > --- > README | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 README > > diff --git a/README b/README > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..63cbead > --- /dev/null > +++ b/README > @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ > +Copyright of Gentoo news items is held by their respective authors > +and translators. > + > +All news items committed after 2018-10-21 are licensed under the > +Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. > +Visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ to view a copy > +of this license.
For better consistency, we could also add a 'License' tag to the news items. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
