Change tutorial and example code from public domain to CC0
Jody Garnett edited this page Mar 29, 2022
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- Contact: jodygarnett
- Tracker: https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-7094
- TLDR: Use CC0 for tutorials and sample code in documentation
- Branch: https://github.com/jodygarnett/geotools/tree/docs_tutorial_projects
Change to headers to indicate CC0 License:
/*
* GeoTools Sample code and Tutorials by Open Source Geospatial Foundation, and others
* https://docs.geotools.org
*
* To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright
* and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain worldwide.
* This software is distributed without any warranty.
*
* You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along with this
* software. If not, see <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.
*/
The developers guide will need to be updated also, and the CC0 License can be included with tutorials in GitHub.
GeoTools 27.x
Choose one of:
- Under Discussion
- In Progress
- Completed
- Rejected,
- Deferred
Voting:
- Andrea Aime: +1
- Ian Turton: +1
- Jody Garnett: +1
- Nuno Oliveira:
- Simone Giannecchini:
- Torben Barsballe: +1
- Update documentation java file headers
- Documentation changes
- Update developers guide
- Check if docs can skip QA check for LGPL headers? No need the header is close enough ...
Result: https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/3823
Before:
/*
* GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
* <http://geotools.org>
*
* (C) 2016, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
*
* This file is hereby placed into the Public Domain. This means anyone is
* free to do whatever they wish with this file. Use it well and enjoy!
*/
After:
/*
* GeoTools Sample code and Tutorials by Open Source Geospatial Foundation, and others
* https://docs.geotools.org
*
* To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright
* and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain worldwide.
* This software is distributed without any warranty.
*
* You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along with this
* software. If not, see <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.
*/