Announcing the Open Definition Licenses Service
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"We’re pleased to announce a simple new service from the Open Knowledge Foundation as part of the Open Definition Project: the (Open) Licenses Service....The service is ultra simple in purpose and function. It provides: [1] Information on licenses for open data, open content, and open-source software in machine readable form (JSON), [2] A simple web API that allows you retrieve this information over the web — including using javascript in a browser via JSONP....There’s data on more than 100 open (and a few closed) licenses including all OSI-approved open source licenses and all Open Definition conformant open data and content licenses. Also included are a few closed licenses as well as ‘generics’ — licensed representing a category (useful where a user does not know the exact license but knows, for example, that the material only requires attribution)...."