Update license to CC-BY-SA-4.0 #74
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A problem:
There's non-CC content here. Like the social icons:
- https://github.com/neuropoly/neuro.polymtl.ca/blob/52903f3245aa23228dc3d6ba7b637db3dbd16fc5/.gitbook/assets/github-mark-20px.png
- https://github.com/neuropoly/neuro.polymtl.ca/blob/52903f3245aa23228dc3d6ba7b637db3dbd16fc5/.gitbook/assets/mail-142.png
- https://github.com/neuropoly/neuro.polymtl.ca/blob/52903f3245aa23228dc3d6ba7b637db3dbd16fc5/.gitbook/assets/logo_youtube.png
I derived this template from https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-book-theme which is BSD 3-Clause
So I think we actually need to add multiple sections to this license file, mentioning which files are covered by which license?
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I think so, but we can try to keep it as easy as possible by limiting the others license to files we already have and even replace them if it's possible to reduce special cases.
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I agree, replacing content if we have to would help a lot.
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Is this good enough to be legally binding?
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Also is it clear and fair and accessible?
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I think it's clear, fair and accessible but if you want to make it even clearer and avoid any potential error we can add an info text on a Pull-Request template of Github
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We should make sure this doesn't mess up the sphinx build.
This file isn't in any toctree so I think sphinx should just ignore it, but we better double-check.
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Let's make sure this renders right in sphinx before committing.
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Right, this is just what I meant
Our previous site/wiki was a DokuWiki site with content under CC-BY-SA-3.0. All content on the site that predates the switchover on May 6th last summer is covered by that.
But all content added since then is in a legal grey zone, since we did not add a clear
LICENSEat the time.To clean up the situation, and also modernize the legal code, add
LICENSE=CC-BY-SA-4.0and a clearCONTRIBUTING.mdthat makes clear contributions will be taken under that license.CC-BY-SA-3.0 is forward-compatible with CC-BY-SA-4.0, so this change does not need to involve content predating the switchover.
But everyone who has added content (current count: 32) since the switchover will need to give informed consent to this for this to be merged.
Fixes #73
(by the way, I got the bulk of the text from https://github.com/santisoler/cc-licenses)
This is the mirror of neuropoly/intranet.neuro.polymtl.ca#69