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)...."

Link:

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/16/announcing-the-open-definition-licenses-service/

Updated:

02/20/2012, 15:53

From feeds:

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Tags:

oa.new oa.licensing ru.do ru.ps oa.pd oa.definitions oa.okd oa.okfn oa.libre oa.copyright

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 11:44

Date published:

02/20/2012, 15:53