On 2021-06-04, at 10:41, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sure. We are happy to put up a LICENSE file in our repository 
> (https://iotanalytics.unsw.edu.au/mudprofiles).  It would be great if you 
> could provide us with a simple template of such license, or we should develop 
> one?

Licenses are like crypto algorithms: They are better developed by specialized 
individuals and heavily cross-checked before being employed.  I would go for 
OSI-approved licenses only.
 
> Once we put up the license, we can also augment the “systeminfo” field of 
> every MUD profile with the URL of the license.
>  
> For example,
> ·         systeminfo: "lifxbulb",
> becomes something like this:
> ·         systeminfo: "lifxbulb 
> (https://iotanalytics.unsw.edu.au/mud/license.txt)",
> Your thoughts?

3.7.  systeminfo

   This is a textual UTF-8 description of the Thing to be connected.
   The intent is for administrators to be able to see a brief
   displayable description of the Thing.  It SHOULD NOT exceed 60
   characters worth of display space.

I don’t think the admins want to be bothered with this in the place where they 
expect info about the Thing.

That’s exactly why I suggested adding something to MUD.

For now, as Eliot said, an SPDX-Identifier is the easiest way to reference a 
license.  Choose between heavily used and sufficiently permissive licenses, 
e.g., 0BSD, MIT, BSD-3-Clause.  Licenses that require the copier to copy the 
copyright as well are currently a bit icky, as that copyright cannot be 
reasonably put into the MUD file yet.  0BSD and especially MIT-0 look quite 
good from this perspective.

https://spdx.org/licenses/

TL;DR:
Just copy the text at https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-0.html (after filling in 
the variables) and place it (the whole text) on 
https://iotanalytics.unsw.edu.au/mudprofiles for now.

Grüße, Carsten


>  
> Regards,
> Hassan
>  
>  
> From: Carsten Bormann <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, 4 June 2021 at 5:04 pm
> To: Hassan Habibi Gharakheili <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eliot Lear <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] Source attribution in MUD files (RFC 8520)
> 
> On 2021-05-22, at 03:00, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > If I understood correctly, the two statements (you mentioned below) are 
> > expected to be included in every published MUD profile. Right?
> > 
> > That makes sense to me -- happy to help.
> 
> Please do — even if you can’t put this into the files before the detailed 
> YANG syntax is agreed, please put up a LICENSE file or some such now so that 
> we can use your files in our curated repo.
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 

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