Open MartinaSt opened 9 months ago
@MartinaSt the intention here is to have a list of acceptable licenses, and the project to specify which can be used, and then these are noted for each source_id entry. In CMIP6 we have CCO (NASA-GISS) and CC BY 4.0 (everyone else). So we recommend CC BY 4.0, and have flexibility to allow other non-standard cases, with these limited
The license information is currently spread over two CVs, the CMIP6Plus_license.json (for CMOR?) and the source_id. I suggest to merge the remaining line in the license.json into the source_id information and remove CMIP6Plus_license.json. This will make it easier to maintain the license information. The source_id CV gets even longer but in my view the advantage in maintaining the license information is higher.
license section in source_id would become: