On 9/24/07, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/23/07, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <snip> > > IMHO there are two sets of data that need to be collected and > > maintained. (not sure whether both are in scope for discordia or > > whether a separate mini-project might be a better home for the license > > meta-data.) > > > I've been wondering about that too. I think the data should be in the same > project that will use it as we'll probably have some API to query and > reconcile artifacts' licenses and the information about these licenses. > Although this will have to get released so I'm not sure the lab is a good > location. I think all those parts could live in the incubator to start with > under the RAT umbrella, as different modules.
sounds like a good plan i hope RAT -> incubator will start this week > the first links artifacts to licenses. the DOAP vocabulary should work > > fine for this. (indeed, DOAP would be another good source for > > meta-data.) probably worth posting a hello to the DOAP mailing list. > > > Yep. > > the second is meta-data about licenses. so, it's not enough to know > > that groovy has a particular license but also that this license is > > from the apache license 1.1 family. licenses in the apache 1.1 family > > share the same legal properties: they are open source, they require > > attribution, they are non-reciprical and so on. they also all share > > the same apache policy WRT inclusion as dependencies. > > > > this seems to me quite a new and different vocabulary to DOAP. might > > be a good idea to talk to the DOAP people about this new vocabulary. > > > Good idea. Although do you think that format should live side-by-side with > DOAP? in terms of data storage? > There could be some synergy too with the ASF legal affairs, I'm > wondering how interesting they could be in this. storing apache policy in RDF is cool. i plan to raise this on legal discuss when we've done a little more work... - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
