Licenses in Operating Systems Specification - Revision history

Nathan Yergler: Redirecting to Liblicense

2008-03-04T17:35:43Z

Redirecting to Liblicense

2007-06-21T18:22:23Z

Naming

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	</pre>		</pre>

	Possibly even better than a mapping like the above, use license URI as filename. Requires escaping to access, but otherwise far less twisted than mappings like the above.		Possibly even better than a mapping like the above, '''use license URI as filename'''. Requires escaping to access, but otherwise far less twisted than mappings like the above.

	=== Forms ===		=== Forms ===

2007-06-21T18:21:42Z

Naming

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	cc-attribution-2.5--lawyer.rtf		cc-attribution-2.5--lawyer.rtf
	</pre>		</pre>

			Possibly even better than a mapping like the above, use license URI as filename. Requires escaping to access, but otherwise far less twisted than mappings like the above.

	=== Forms ===		=== Forms ===

2007-06-21T18:18:02Z

Naming: move to conventions CC already uses

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	<pre>		<pre>
	~~LICENSE_PROVIDER-LICENSENAME-VERSION-JURISDICTION_CODE-FORM~~.~~OPTIONAL_FILE_ENDING~~		licenseprovider_licensecode[_version[_jurisdiction]][_(deed\|legalcode)_language].filetype
	</pre>		</pre>

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	<pre>		<pre>
	cc-~~attribution-2~~.5~~-en-machine~~.rdf		cc_by-sa_2.5.rdf
	cc-~~attribution-2~~.~~5-en-human~~.~~txt~~		cc_by-sa_2.5_legalcode.html
	cc-~~attribution-2~~.~~5-en-lawyer.txt~~		cc_by-sa_2.5_deed.html
	~~cc-attribution-2.5--lawyer~~.~~txt~~
	</pre>		</pre>

	This way also, a system could have other versions of licenses, such as:		This way also, a system could have other versions of licenses, such as (these should mirror the above):

	<pre>		<pre>

2007-06-21T17:27:37Z

Offline vs. Online

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	There needs to be away to use web services (like [[Web_Services_Client_Implementations\|CC Web Services]]) to get the most up-to-date versions of licenses and as a fallback, use the on-disk versions of licenses. Also, some people and systems might not have web access, so there is a definite need for a place for these files to exist in an operating system. Also, most software just includes a license for source code and they forget that the GNU GPL is not for content. Thus, having a local link to licenses would promote licensing individual content distributed in an operating system through a distro to license-up and be legal.		There needs to be away to use web services (like [[Web_Services_Client_Implementations\|CC Web Services]]) to get the most up-to-date versions of licenses and as a fallback, use the on-disk versions of licenses. Also, some people and systems might not have web access, so there is a definite need for a place for these files to exist in an operating system. Also, most software just includes a license for source code and they forget that the GNU GPL is not for content. Thus, having a local link to licenses would promote licensing individual content distributed in an operating system through a distro to license-up and be legal.

			NOTE: This is a long-time down the road, and the current recommendation is to use a systems package management facilities.

	== TODO ==		== TODO ==

2007-06-21T17:25:25Z

Naming

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	<pre>		<pre>
	LICENSE_PROVIDER-LICENSENAME-FORM~~-VERSION~~.OPTIONAL_FILE_ENDING		LICENSE_PROVIDER-LICENSENAME-VERSION-JURISDICTION_CODE-FORM.OPTIONAL_FILE_ENDING
	</pre>		</pre>

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	<pre>		<pre>
	cc-attribution~~-machine~~-2.5.rdf		cc-attribution-2.5-en-machine.rdf
	cc-attribution-human-2.5.txt		cc-attribution-2.5-en-human.txt
	cc-attribution~~-lawyer~~-2.5.txt		cc-attribution-2.5-en-lawyer.txt
			cc-attribution-2.5--lawyer.txt
	</pre>		</pre>

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	cc-attribution~~-machine~~-2.5.rdf		cc-attribution-2.5--machine.rdf
	cc-attribution~~-machine~~-2.5.xml		cc-attribution-2.5--machine.xml

	cc-attribution~~-human~~-2.5.txt		cc-attribution-2.5-be-human.txt
	cc-attribution~~-human~~-2.5.html		cc-attribution-2.5-de.html
	cc-attribution~~-human~~-2.5.odt		cc-attribution-2.5--human.odt

	cc-attribution~~-lawyer~~-2.5.txt		cc-attribution-2.5-pt_BR-lawyer.txt
	cc-attribution~~-lawyer~~-2.5.html		cc-attribution-2.5-es.html
	cc-attribution~~-lawyer~~-2.5.rtf		cc-attribution-2.5--lawyer.rtf
	</pre>		</pre>

2006-06-23T17:40:42Z

User-level

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	===== User-level =====		===== User-level =====

	C:\%APPDATA%\~~create~~ (for local use)		C:\%APPDATA%\licenses (for local use)

	== Filetype Mapping ==		== Filetype Mapping ==

2006-06-23T17:40:21Z

System=level

2006-05-02T00:53:37Z

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	{{incomplete}}		{{incomplete}}

	This is a spec for [[Include licenses in operating systems\|including licenses in an Operating System]]. Currently, Gentoo is the only distro that puts licenses into a central location (/usr/portage/licenses) and they are just as text files. However, all open ~~source software~~ includes license declarations, links to licenses, etc in each package. This is an area in need for serious shared infrastructure. This spec. is written to support building a mechanism into common operating systems for supporting all types of licenses to help license different components of software as well as content/media on the system, and what users generate.		This is a spec for [[Include licenses in operating systems\|including licenses in an Operating System]]. Currently, Gentoo is the only distro that puts licenses into a central location (/usr/portage/licenses) and they are just as text files. However, all software (open and closed) includes license declarations, links to licenses, etc in each package. This is an area in need for serious shared infrastructure. This spec. is written to support building a mechanism into common operating systems for supporting all types of licenses to help license different components of software as well as content/media on the system, and what users generate.

	== Licenses ==		== Licenses ==

2006-05-02T00:51:43Z

Path =