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

Status: draft

Issue

Standard licensing notices need to be published in a machine readable way to facilitate the implementation of license text matching guidelines.

Proposal

Add a `standardNotice` property to the License class whose value is a string. The cardinality of this property would be "Optional, zero or one"

Detailed Changes

No changes are required in the Tag-Value section of the spec
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#License">License class details</a>:
```
* standardNotice

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

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