Haven't all changes been made through gerrit and did require a CLA? 

--J.

Colin Alworth schrieb am Donnerstag, 21. April 2022 um 17:34:49 UTC+2:

> See the question raised at 
> https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt-site/issues/328.
>
> While gwtproject explicitly licenses all "software and sample code" as 
> under the Apache License 2.0, it appears that we don't have a license 
> specified for the contents of the gwtproject website (
> https://gwtproject.org, https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt-site/). A case 
> could be made that the content is already licensed as under the same 
> license. It was my understanding that this is discouraged (though at the 
> moment I'm having a hard time seeing why that would be). I can find 
> concrete examples of the Apache Foundation licensing their documentation 
> under the Apache License
>  * https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation
>  * https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs
>
> On the other hand, if the Apache license that applies to all code and 
> samples does not apply to the contents, then each author owns their own 
> content directly.
>
> I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that (at least in the country 
> in which I reside) content is copyrighted by default, and the author owns 
> that copyright. Additional rights must be granted by the author. If we want 
> to change the license, we need the approval of the authors so far - 
> https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt-site/graphs/contributors. Anyone who 
> doesn't approve would need to have their content removed, if we decide to 
> change.
>
> Are we sufficiently clear that all content is Apache licensed, including 
> the website documentation? Is there a good reason to consider a different 
> license instead? Should we seek confirmation from any authors of 
> substantial amounts of content that their content falls under the license 
> we choose?
>
> My suggestion is to clarify that all content is under the Apache License, 
> and see a confirmation from any author who wrote more than ~5 lines of 
> content. If we think we are already clear that all content is under that 
> license, then we should state that in an up front way, such as setting the 
> "license" metadata of the gwt-site repo, and adding a LICENSE file.
>
> Thoughts, suggestions, pointers to how other projects have handled this?
>

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