Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

[Manolis Ragkousis]

I agree!

On 1/26/22 11:24, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guix!
>
> With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is
> not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside
> Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to fixing
> it).
>
> I’d like us to clarify that, with a footer on blog posts saying that,
> unless otherwise stated, posts are dual-licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 and
> GFDL 1.3+ (the latter so we can reuse material in the cookbook and in
> the manual).  Patch below.
>
> What do people think?
>
> If maintainers and everyone agrees, I’d like to publicly email all the
> authors asking them whether they agree with the proposed licensing
> terms, or whether they’d like a different free license.  The script
> below enumerates blog post authors (the list needs a bit of cleanup
> still):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> scheme@(guile-user)> ,pp authors
> $22 = ("A collective of GNU maintainers"
>   "Andreas Enge"
>   "Chris Marusich"
>   "Chris Marusich and Léo Le Bouter"
>   "Christopher Baines"
>   "Christopher Lemmer Webber"
>   "Danjela Lura"
>   "Danny Milosavljevic"
>   "David Thompson"
>   "Efraim Flashner"
>   "Florian Pelz"
>   "Guix Hackers"
>   "Gábor Boskovits"
>   "Jakob L. Kreuze"
>   "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen"
>   "Jan Nieuwenhuizen"
>   "Joshua Branson"
>   "Julien Lepiller"
>   "Konrad Hinsen"
>   "Laura Lazzati"
>   "Ludovic (civodul) Courtès"
>   "Ludovic Courtès"
>   "Ludovic Courtès and Leo Famulari"
>   "Magali Lemes"
>   "Manolis Ragkousis"
>   "Marius (mbakke) Bakke"
>   "Marius Bakke"
>   "Mathieu Othacehe"
>   "Maxim Cournoyer"
>   "Pierre Neidhardt"
>   "Pjotr Prins"
>   "Ricardo (rekado) Wurmus"
>   "Ricardo Wurmus"
>   "Roel Janssen"
>   "Simon Tournier"
>   "Tatiana Sholokhova"
>   "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice"
>   "sirgazil")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> How does that sound?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
>
> diff --git a/website/apps/blog/templates/post.scm 
> b/website/apps/blog/templates/post.scm
> index de02c6c..0d6b08e 100644
> --- a/website/apps/blog/templates/post.scm
> +++ b/website/apps/blog/templates/post.scm
> @@ -60,4 +60,19 @@
>                 #:label tag
>                 #:url (guix-url (tag-url-path tag)))
>                " ")) ; NOTE: Force space for readability in non-CSS browsers.
> -           (sort tags tag-first?))))))))
> +           (sort tags tag-first?)))
> +
> +        (div
> +         (@ (class "license"))
> +         ,(G_ `(p "Unless otherwise stated, blog posts on this site are
> +copyrighted by their respective authors and published under the terms of
> +the " ,(G_
> +                    `(a (@ (href 
> "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/";))
> +                        "CC-BY-SA 4.0"))
> +                  " license and those of the "
> +                  ,(G_
> +                    `(a (@ (href
> +                            "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html";))
> +                        "GNU Free Documentation License"))
> +                  " (version 1.3 or later, with no Invariant Sections, no
> +Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts)."))))))))
> diff --git a/website/static/blog/css/post.css b/website/static/blog/css/post.css
> index 57d7f0d..95035ba 100644
> --- a/website/static/blog/css/post.css
> +++ b/website/static/blog/css/post.css
> @@ -38,3 +38,8 @@ article {
>   article.limit-width {
>       max-width: 720px;
>   }
> +
> +.license {
> +    font-size: 0.8em;
> +    line-height: 1.4em;
> +}