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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 58856@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58856: Non-free license CC-BY-ND on GNU ELPA web pages
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 07:14:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnq4wu1P-40cCkZ=3oH3iyx7ZRQ6pdQ-p98An_CYB3H5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1opTKT-00084W-Q8@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> In the GNU Project we use CC-BY-ND for publications that
> state our views.  Most articles on www.gnu.org carry CC-BY-ND.
>
> However, for documentation of software, we use free licenses.
>
> Which of those categories do these pages fall in?  (Or are theh in
> neither one?)  That is the crucial question here.  If these pages are
> software documentation -- that includes brief descriptions of packages
> -- then it should have a free license.

It is software documentation, yes.  Thanks for confirming.  So I
installed the below change in the elpa-admin repository.

Stefan M, could you please update the static web pages too?

diff --git a/elpa-admin.el b/elpa-admin.el
index f8f8fcabb6..c804612516 100644
--- a/elpa-admin.el
+++ b/elpa-admin.el
@@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ readme file has an unconventional name"
                 <p>Design provided by <a
href=\"https://nicolas.petton.fr\">Nicolas Petton</a></p>
                 <p>
                   This website is licensed under the
-                  <a
href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/\">CC BY-ND
4.0</a>
+                  <a
href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/\">CC BY-SA
4.0</a>
                   International License.
                 </p>
                 <p><a href=\"/jslicense.html\"
data-jslicense=\"1\">JavaScript Licenses</a></p>





  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-31 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-29  3:00 bug#58856: Non-free license CC-BY-ND on GNU ELPA web pages Stefan Kangas
2022-10-31 11:51 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-31 14:14   ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-11-01 16:49     ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-12 20:45     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-11-12 22:37       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-11-13  4:01         ` Stefan Kangas

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