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An open licence should be published openly #177

Open Stephen-Gates opened 6 years ago

Stephen-Gates commented 6 years ago

Looking at licenses.csv and the json for localauth-withrights and ukcrown-withrights I notice both do not have a url for their licence yet they are shown as conformant open definition licences. I think all conformant licences should have an openly published licence at a url.

ukclickusepsi and ukcrown do not have urls. They are not conformant but they have been assessed so I'd also expect a url.

Two points:

are there urls to add to the data?
should the open definition require openly published licences?

mlinksva commented 6 years ago

Is approved accurate for the first two? They aren't listed at http://opendefinition.org/licenses/

Stephen-Gates commented 6 years ago

If you follow the links above you'll see in the json they're:

"od_conformance": "approved", 
"status": "active", 
"url": ""

I'm not across licences in the UK - should these licenses be retired/superseded?

mlinksva commented 6 years ago

If they are retired, yes. Does OGL supersede them or is it just different?

But if they haven't been approved they shouldn't be marked as such. Is there any evidence that they have been?

Stephen-Gates commented 6 years ago

I have no evidence and no clues in https://github.com/okfn/licenses/blame/master/licenses/localauth-withrights.json

mlinksva commented 6 years ago

Hmm, I see https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/commit/cd013ce9332ca05fee6abb89889fe26673be0d65

I imagine if there is evidence it would be in http://web.archive.org/web/*/opendefinition.org (ie the site when it was in WordPress) or the old mailing list.

mlinksva commented 6 years ago

Nevermind that commit, different license.

Stephen-Gates commented 6 years ago

Oh! Master says ukcrown-withrights is retired https://github.com/okfn/licenses/blob/master/licenses/ukcrown-withrights.json.

Why doesn't this equal http://licenses.opendefinition.org/licenses/ukcrown-withrights.json?

mlinksva commented 6 years ago

The site is running off of gh-pages. It probably should be switched to run off master and gh-pages deleted, or master deleted. I'll check on that, soon but not right now.

mlinksva commented 6 years ago

Switched to master. http://licenses.opendefinition.org/licenses/ukcrown-withrights.json says retired.