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Overview of the Web Data Principles
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how to add license info #3

Open dret opened 7 years ago

dret commented 7 years ago

license info can be added by using the license link relation. however, the question then remains how licenses are identified. is there a popular/accepted list of license identifiers?

dret commented 7 years ago

https://twitter.com/openapi3/status/871774075508539395 suggests http://spdx.org/licenses

dret commented 7 years ago

sadly, the identifiers on that page are strings only. that does not work too well for links. using the linked info page URIs such as https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html might work, but then again these are not the official identifiers. any ideas or comments, @linuxfoundation?

dret commented 7 years ago

https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical is an alternative list, which does seem to support/favor URI-identified licenses. (suggested via https://twitter.com/openapi3/status/871794808259563525)

MikeRalphson commented 7 years ago

Survey of licenses used by APIs in the APIs.guru collection.

https://gist.github.com/MikeRalphson/b1bf70446016edab81c89628c7232486

About 50% of the APIs have an explicit license.

dret commented 7 years ago

http://webdata.systems/usable just popped into existence and this is where the "how to represent license info" info will show up.

dret commented 7 years ago

On 2017-06-05 13:53, Mike Ralphson wrote:

Survey of licenses used by APIs in the APIs.guru collection. https://gist.github.com/MikeRalphson/b1bf70446016edab81c89628c7232486 About 50% of the APIs have an explicit license.

thanks, very useful. of course if somebody creates their own license they will and should create their own URI identifying it. but for widely reused popular licenses, it would be great to have some consolidated list like the ones suggested earlier in this thread.