Hi, all- A few months back I posted a request for help with license information:
http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-March/000925.html http://wiki.opensource.org/license_comment_sweep I've now gone ahead and made a mockup of what a license might look like after we've improved the information we present about the license: http://wiki.opensource.org/license_improvement_sample compare to the current MPL page at http://opensource.org/licenses/MPL-2.0 Please ignore that the two wikis have different styles/formatting, and focus on the content. Information included (where available): - homepage - link to canonical text - OSI discussion (but not board approval, which I don't find very useful/informative) - category - other versions (where appropriate) Information not included: - any categorization into permissive, copyleft, etc. (I'm not sure we can do this in a way that is useful and accurate) - any quantitative information on license popularity (I would like to have this, but it is difficult to do in a repeatable, objective way - discussion for another thread) Open questions: - Any suggestions on the presentation of the information? i.e., is simple bold headings OK? Should we do some fancy table thing instead? Do you like/dislike the ": Information" and ": License Text" I added to the <h1> headers? - Any comments on what information is/isn't presented? (If you must have extensive discussion of the existing categories or the desirability/possibility of getting more objective information, please change the email subject header :) - Obviously this information will not all be available for all licenses. In those cases, should we simply omit reference to the information, or should we say something like "Canonical text: the canonical text is no longer available" or "OSI discussion: this license was approved before OSI's current mail archive system, and so the discussion is no longer available"? I think the latter. - MOST IMPORTANTLY: Any volunteers to gather more information for more licenses? :) Looking forward to feedback- Luis
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