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Revision as of 20:53, 18 June 2012
Status: open
Issue
See also: <a href="https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1050">bug #1050</a>
The legal working group track whether each license has been approved by the OSI. That information should be published as part of the official license list.
Proprosal
Add a boolean isOsiApproved
property to the License
class to indicated whether the OSI has approved the license. Update the license list web site to display this information and annotate it with RDFa so that the information is machine readable.
Detailed Changes
Add the following text to the <a href="http://spdx.org/rdf/terms#License">License class definition section</a> of the RDF terms documentation:
* isOsiApproved Cardinality: Mandatory, one
Add the following text to the properties section of the RDF terms documentation immediately preceding the
licenseComments
section:Property: isOsiApproved Indicates if the Open Source Initiative has approved the license as being an open source license. A link to the OSI license page for this license should be provided use the seeAlso property when this property is affirmative. Status: testing Domain: License Range: xsd:boolean
Updated license list web site generator to display "Is OSI approved" after the "Other web pages for this license" info in the header block of license details pages.