Relicense docs to CC-BY-SA and code snippets to CC-0

[cjtenny]

Hello fellow Temporal champions,

As part of #1449 / the plan to get Temporal docs into MDN, we need to relicense the docs to CC-BY-SA and the code snippets to CC-0. I believe we do not need copyright holders of typos or minor corrections to relicense their contributions; all others will need to agree to this for our docs to move to MDN.

The following people have contributed non-small-correction changes to the documentation. Please reply to this issue confirming that you are okay with relicensing your contributions to the documentation under CC-BY-SA and your contributions to code snippets in the documentation under CC-0.

I'm tracking this here in this issue so that we ave a written record, thanks! I've assigned it to everybody but feel free to remove yourself once you've confirmed. I'll edit the checkboxes as people reply, or feel free to edit my post if you're allowed to edit it.

• @ptomato
• @justingrant
• @ryzokuken
• @Ms2ger
• @sffc
• @pipobscure
• @jasonwilliams
• @cjtenny

(I agree to relicense my contributions - cjtenny)

[cjtenny]

(Once this issue is complete, I'll add the appropriate licensing to the files / folder and submit the PR)

[ryzokuken]

Thanks! I explicitly approve this.

[Ms2ger]

I agree to relicense my contributions.

[pipobscure]

I agree to relicense

[ptomato]

I agree to relicense.

[justingrant]

I agree to relicense!

[meyerweb]

@sffc @jasonwilliams What do you think?

[pipobscure]

Since @jasonwilliams is doing this for Bloomberg and they are therefore the relevant entity I can speak for him and agree to the relicense on Bloombergs behalf.

[sffc]

My contributions, and contributions from other Googlers, can be licensed as CC BY-SA but not CC-0.

[cjtenny]

I will redo my audit to see if any Googlers wrote code snippets or just doc text, in which case that's fine.

I'll continue digging into the TC39 copyright ownership as well to figure out how we deal with that. Thanks all! I'll update in the champions meeting tomorrow morning.

[meyerweb]

Is there anything I can do to help with the audit? I’m reluctant to restart the MDN effort until I know which parts have to be re-written and which can just be ported over.

[cjtenny]

My audit shows that the only off-limit code snippets or changes to code snippets contributed by Googlers (@sffc , as far as I can tell you are the only Googler to have contributed to documentation here) that are not minor corrections or typo fixes are:

• Code snippets in e42c8ecabd9d3463cf9b9f62a4548bfbbaa305d0
• The entirety of code snippets in iso-string-ext.md, calendar-draft.md, and calendar-subclass.md
• Cookbook example futureDateForm.mjs

In terms of "can be ported over", assuming I get the go-ahead from someone who knows whether TC39's claim to the copyright of the entire work includes the copyright to documentation contributions or whether that's considered copyright of individual contributions - which we think likely since other TC39 proposals have probably had docs ported to MDN - every other code snippet and bit of documentation should be safe.

[sffc]

• Code snippets in e42c8ec

Most of those code snippets were originally authored by @justingrant, but I checked them in as part of migrating them from a Google Doc to Markdown.

[justingrant]

• The entirety of code snippets in iso-string-ext.md, calendar-draft.md, and calendar-subclass.md

The latter two files are draft docs-- I don't expect they'd end up in MDN anyways, so I don't think copyright/license applies to them.

For iso-string-ext.md, there isn't any actual code in that file. It's just string examples that happen to be formatted as code. So I'd treat that file as 100% "not code". ;-)

• Cookbook example futureDateForm.mjs

Are we bringing all the cookbook examples into MDN? Regardless, if licensing is a problem then I'd suggest just omitting this one.

• Code snippets in e42c8ec

Most of those code snippets were originally authored by @justingrant, but I checked them in as part of migrating them from a Google Doc to Markdown.

Yep. Shane and I collaborated on that doc, but I think it's OK to consider me the primary author/copyright-owner on that page's code samples.

[meyerweb]

I’m not currently planning to move the cookbook over to MDN, except possibly to raid it for a basic example or two to use on a guide page, with a link out to the full cookbook.

[ptomato]

FWIW, from a cursory look, I think the changes that Shane made to futureDateForm.mjs consisted of annotating it with partial ISO calendar examples, and then reverting that annotation - I guess those two commits didn't get squashed together.

[justingrant]

@meyerweb - Do you need anything else from us to proceed? Seems like all the outstanding code samples above now are unblocked.

[meyerweb]

@justingrant - I don’t think so, thanks! I’ll take the conversion process back up today, or possibly tomorrow.