Trent W. Buck wrote:
I'd like to propose (long term) adopting either RDF or some equivalent
that allows end users to say on a per-patch file "I wrote this work, I
have copyright on it, and I license you to use it per the following
contract (e.g. GPL-2+)".
There would be facility so that an end user can declare their preferred
license, and a repository can declare its preferred license, and Darcs
would warn the user if they were incompatible. For example, if I want
to use CDDL for my works, but the Darcs repository is GPL-2'd, it would
complain when I tried to do a "darcs record" unless I added to the
command line --license gpl-2+ or whatever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
RDF is a "standard", but it's a long rabbit hole to fall into. License
data may be useful to encode in a repository, but I'm not entirely sure
if RDF is the way forward... On the other hand RDF is a hell of a
hammer and you could make the case that a lot of other nails that darcs
should solve could be solved with rich RDF support.
The user interface alone will be a lot of work, but just thing of all
the many other things we could discuss (and this is just of the top of
my head; with a little Wikipedia skimming):
Should we push XML or Notation 3? Notation 3 for CLI, XML for
--xml-output? XML for both?
Should there be SPARQL support?
Would a triplestore be necessary/helpful?
Should darcs constrain to prescribed ontologies or allow for free-form RDF?
Should the RDF graph just involve Patches? What about per-file,
per-repository metadata? Perhaps each repository might have a single
triplestore and we can develop/re-use ontologies that let us store
per-contributor knowledge (email, FOAF, DOAC, favorite color), per-file
knowledge (license, mime-type), and anything else we might ever need. We
can then work on intelligently commuting RDF graph changes... Or not.
RDF is a "Semantic Web" technology that I'm still dubious as to the
merits of general RDF use.
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--Max Battcher--
http://worldmaker.net
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