[License-discuss] Trove Classifiers

2016-05-04 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
Hey all, For those who don't know, Trove classifiers are used by the Python world to talk about what is contained in the Python package. Stuff like saying "It's under the MIT/Expat license!" or "It's beta!". I was looking at the tags, and I saw one that made me "wat" a bit. > License :: OSI

[License-discuss] Open Source License API Soft-launch

2016-04-28 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
Hey -discuss, Over the last few flights I've been on, I've hacked up an API for OSI approved Open Source licenses. It's in soft-launch, so nothing pushed out yet, and I'd appreciate it being kept public-but-not-pushed until after I write up a blog post about it. Part of this is a machine

Re: [License-discuss] Any Free License, an open source license

2015-11-13 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
Although not directly related, I started porting licenses to a machine readable format in git repo at https://github.com/OpenSourceOrg/licenses Eventually I'd like to even tag "releases", which makes stuff like pointing to licenses approved at X date more interesting. (Patches, bugs, ideas