Il 26 gennaio 2018 23:01:31 CET, Jack Ostroff <noreply@phabricator.kde.org> ha scritto:
Same question here: did you get the permission to relicense from past contributors?

Ciao

No, I did not. I will post about this to the kmymoney-devel list. Do I need explicit approval from everyone listed as an author in any of the docbook files, or just provide them an opportunity to object? I'm not even certain that all contributors are still reading the list.

Separate question - the change from FDL to CCBYSA4 also occurs in credits.docbook - it seems to apply to translations there - is the same question of approval also relevant for that file?

Il 27.01.2018 00:26 Jack Ostroff ha scritto:

ostroffjh added a comment.

No, I did not. I will post about this to the kmymoney-devel list. Do
I
need explicit approval from everyone listed as an author in any of
the
docbook files, or just provide them an opportunity to object? I'm not
even certain that all contributors are still reading the list.

It's not different from a change of license in the code. So you should
directly contact all contributors.
We recently started adding the waive option for a relicense to CCBYSA4
also into the relicensecheck.pl script in kde-dev-scripts, but not many
people so far added their name:
https://cgit.kde.org/kde-dev-scripts.git/tree/relicensecheck.pl
If someone is listed in the table and has the CCBYSA4 option, no need
to ask again. When pinging the past contributors, please ask them to add
themselves to the list or publicly ask to be added, so other documents
can benefit from it.

Can you please revert in the meantime?

Separate question - the change from FDL to CCBYSA4 also occurs in
credits.docbook - it seems to apply to translations there - is the
same
question of approval also relevant for that file?

That's more tricky: unless the translators wrote down a specific
license (which happened for few languages), we usually assume that the
intention is to follow the license of the main document, but it may not
always be the case. I suggest to contact the i18n list when the
relicense of the English documentation is done.

Ciao

I've tried running the relicensecheck.pl script. I manually downloaded a copy of kde-common/accounts, but assume I should actually make a local clone - is it in git, or only svn?
The script seemed to stop at the first author email not in the accounts list for index.docbook. Since it said the email wasn't in the accounts list, I assume it got the email from the accounts list - but why did it stop at the first?
The script gave me a long list of needed permissions for whatsnew.docbook (just for an example) (including yurchor, who I'm a bit surprised not to see already on the list).
Is there a standard email I can send to the contributors (or post to the KMyMoney-devel list) which also tells them how to actually grant permission. It looks like I need to do this myself - do I just add myself to the script and then commit and push?