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Update documentation copyright #2921

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Julian-O opened this issue Nov 16, 2023 · 5 comments
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Update documentation copyright #2921

Julian-O opened this issue Nov 16, 2023 · 5 comments
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@Julian-O
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Kivy has been under MIT license since 2013

However, the documentation reports on each page:

© Copyright 2015, Alexander Taylor

I can see the name appearing in the code in a couple of places, but I can't see how it is getting sucked up into the documentation.

Remove Alexander's name and replace it with Kivy Team or similar.

@Julian-O Julian-O added the bug label Nov 16, 2023
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A copyright is not a license.

Software licenses are not always the best for documentation.

I would like to suggest considering a Creative Commons license that protects the rights of the authors and the project:
https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/

@Julian-O
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A copyright is not a license.

True. However, Mr Taylor is not the sole copyright owner of the communal work that has lots of contributors. This copyright statement is inaccurate, and this should change.

I would like to suggest considering a Creative Commons license

Please do that in a separate issue. Changing a license is a major pain, and getting sufficient support will require a major campaign. Changing a copyright notice is a trivial edit, and doesn't need to wait.

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tcaduser commented Nov 16, 2023

It appears that Mr Taylor cared enough to put his copyright notice, and maybe he should be the only one to change it.

The other authors each hold a copyright on the parts they had written.

There is nothing stopping authors of the communal work from adding their additional copyright statement to the work, while retaining the one that Mr. Taylor made explicit.

Interestingly enough, the MIT license does explicitly reference documentation files:

Copyright (c) 2010-2017 Kivy Team and other contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

Perhaps it is then within anyone's rights to remove the copyright notice from the document, however it would seem to me that Mr Taylor made a substantial contribution to the original work and should keep this attribution.

@Julian-O
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I can't see how it is getting sucked up into the documentation.

The reason for that is this was fixed just under a week ago, but we haven't seen the new documents generated yet.

Closing as stale.

@Julian-O Julian-O closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Nov 16, 2023
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misl6 commented Nov 16, 2023

FYI: https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/develop/ shows the updated version

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