Mandatory change in licensing and legal documentation

SebastianBezold commented 4 months ago

Description

Due to a change in how we want to license Eclipse Tractus-X, there are a couple of changes to legal documentation in our repositories.

This issue is created for every active repository in our GitHub org, to remind everyone about the required changes and also to track the completion of if.

If there are any reasons, why you think this change should not be applied to this repository, document them as comment on this issue, before closing it. Be aware, that there are most likely no exceptions for our repositories.

If you have any questions, feel free to join the weekly Community Office Hour and raise it there.

What has to be done?

The following steps have to be completed, to fully implement the licensing change:

[x] Add a new file LICENSE_non-code in your repository root with the contents of the CC-BY-4.0 license
[x] Remove the /LICENSES directory in case you previously stored the CC-BY-4.0 license there. Make sure there is no other CC-BY-4.0 License left, other than on root as LICENSE_non-code
[x] Add the "Project Licenses" and "Terms of Use" sections to your CONTRIBUTING.md file. See eclipse-tractusx/sig-infra#476 for an example
[x] Adapt "Declared Project License" section in NOTICE.md. See eclipse-tractusx/sig-infra#476 for an example
[x] Please verify, your CONTRIBUTION.md does not have encoding issues. We found several occurences in repositories.

Additional information

You can find detailed information in our Release Guidelines section 7. The changes have been introduces in eclipse-tractusx/eclipse-tractusx.github.io#856.

You can also see an example on how a repository was changed in eclipse-tractusx/sig-infra#476.

Overall progress tracked in eclipse-tractusx/sig-infra#477

matbmoser commented 3 months ago

Sure @SebastianBezold it will be taken care

saudkhan116 commented 3 months ago

Hi @SebastianBezold, Thank you for informing and preparing the content for us. We have integrated new changes here chore/update-license-legal-docs as mentioned above. However, I am still not clear about the last point in your checklist regarding encoding issues: "Please verify, your CONTRIBUTION.md does not have encoding issues. We found several occurences in repositories.". Could you please elaborate it further?

SebastianBezold commented 3 months ago

Hi @saudkhan116,

we encountered several CONTRIBUTING.md files in our repos, that had encoding issues and therefore rendered strange characters. This is not the case in your repository as far as I can see. I created this issue via scripting on every single repo and therefore I thought, it might make sense to let everyone double check, if they are anyways adapting the files

saudkhan116 commented 3 months ago

Hi @saudkhan116,

we encountered several CONTRIBUTING.md files in our repos, that had encoding issues and therefore rendered strange characters. This is not the case in your repository as far as I can see. I created this issue via scripting on every single repo and therefore I thought, it might make sense to let everyone double check, if they are anyways adapting the files

Thanks for your explanation and confirmation that we dont have such encoding issues. Then we are all set 💯

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