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rubensworks / ScholarMarkdown

A framework for writing markdown-based scholarly articles.
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Automatically add a CC BY license #17

Open pietercolpaert opened 5 years ago

pietercolpaert commented 5 years ago

This is a feature request to automatically add an RDFa annotation for a license as follows:

<> dcterms:license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

This is an actual condition checked by the linked open research cloud before it is able to be indexed by them (by @csarven).

I think by default, CC BY is a good license for papers. You could make it configurable to have CC0, CC BY SA, or yet another one instead

csarven commented 5 years ago

It is not a "must" but a "should": https://linkedresearch.org/cloud#article-data-shape-should :) We make up as we go as to what the notification should signal, so for example, it'd be nice if people can filter through scholarly activities based on license.

rubensworks commented 5 years ago

The ability to easily set the license sounds like a good idea!

However, I'm a bit hesitant to set any license as a default. Some users may not be aware that a default license is set, and as such may end up with a license on their article that they don't want. For this reason, I would stick with "no license" as default, but strongly encourage people to pick one.

For now, it should be possible to manually encode this in layouts/default.html.erb.

csarven commented 5 years ago

Just sharing a thought:

just as users agree with the MIT license of this software, they can agree with the idea that when the license is switched on (default), it will include the license. As long as the mechanism and information is visible in the documentation and the author's article, it may be sufficiently clear.