View source for Technical Team/Proposals/2012-06-18/standardNotice field for License class

<p><strong>Status:</strong>&nbsp;draft</p><p><strong>Issue</strong></p><p><strong></strong>See <a href="https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049">bug #1049</a></p><p>Standard licensing notices need to be published in a machine readable way to facilitate the implementation of license text matching guidelines.</p><p><strong>Proposal</strong></p><p><strong><br /></strong>Add a `standardNotice` property to the License class whose value is a string. The cardinality of this property would be "Optional, zero or one"</p><p><strong>Detailed Changes</strong></p><ul><li>No changes are required in the Tag-Value section of the spec</li>
<li>The follow text would be added the the RDF terms document in the properties section of the the <a href="http://spdx.org/rdf/terms.html#License">License class details</a>:

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* standardNotice

  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one
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<li><p>The following text would be added to the RDF terms document immediately before the <a href="http://spdx.org/rdf/terms.html#supplier">supplier section</a> and an appropriate entry would be added to the properties index:</p>
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Property: standardNotice

The block of text specified in the license as the preferred 
way to declare that a work is covered by the terms of this 
license.

Status: testing

Domain: License

Range: xsd:string

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<li><p>The license license web site generator would be updated to add a "Standard Notice" section after the "Text" section in the details pages of license for which one is known and use RDFa to make that information machine readable.</p></li></ul>