[ckan-dev] CKAN info

Wed Jul 18 09:57:17 UTC 2012

Toby, the licence page you linked to also I guess answers Bert's
question about included components:

Webhelpers
Genshi
Migrate
SQLAlchemy

However, is this still correct? I thought moving away from Genshi was
your happiest moment.

Mark

On 18 July 2012 10:53, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
> Oops, thanks, Toby.
>
> On ckan.org the footer has a column called 'CKAN' with a link called
> 'Licence' that links to CC BY 3.0 - presumably this applies to the
> website not CKAN, but it could certainly be clearer.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 18 July 2012 10:37, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 18 July 2012 10:27, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Bert,
>>>
>>> > I have now: (technical format for displaying it on the lod2stack
>>> > overview)
>>> >     <owl:NamedIndividual rdf:about="&localhost;CKAN">
>>>
>>> Not sure what this bit means but I assume it's ok ...
>>>
>>> >         <tool_description>CKAN is a registry or catalogue system for
>>> > datasets or other "knowledge" resources. CKAN aims to make it
>>> > easy
>>> > to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that
>>> > are
>>> > machine automatable.</tool_description>
>>>
>>> The first sentence of this description is a bit out of date. I suggest:
>>>
>>> <tool_description>CKAN is a system for storing, cataloguing and
>>> visualising data or other "knowledge" resources. CKAN aims
>>> to make it easy to find, share and re-use open content and data,
>>> especially in ways that are machine automatable.</tool_description>
>>>
>>> > I need url license and contact details.
>>
>>
>> is the the license for ckan code?
>>
>> the code is AGPL 3+ please see
>> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
>>
>>
>>>
>>> URL: http://ckan.org
>>> Licence: CC BY 3.0
>>> Contact: info at ckan.org
>>>
>>> > Eventually, some acknowledgements to the software components that are
>>> > embedded in the software.
>>> > The last is I believe the right way for open-source software: namely the
>>> > acknowledge in your high level description about the work you reuse.
>>> > It also aids to trace some license issues if the software is going to be
>>> > used in a commercial setting.
>>>
>>> I don't know much about this - cc'ing to the dev list, where perhaps
>>> someone can shed some light on what components should be mentioned.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18 July 2012 09:25, Bert Van Nuffelen <bert.van.nuffelen at tenforce.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi Darwin and Mark,
>>> >
>>> > can you provide me info about CKAN? For the LOD2 stack.
>>> >
>>> > I have now: (technical format for displaying it on the lod2stack
>>> > overview)
>>> >     <owl:NamedIndividual rdf:about="&localhost;CKAN">
>>> >         <rdf:type rdf:resource="&lod2;Tool"/>
>>> >         <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">CKAN</rdfs:label>
>>> >         <tool_description>CKAN is a registry or catalogue system for
>>> > datasets or other "knowledge" resources. CKAN aims to make it
>>> > easy
>>> > to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that
>>> > are
>>> > machine automatable.</tool_description>
>>> >         <contributed_by_partner rdf:resource="&Partner;okfn"/>
>>> >     </owl:NamedIndividual>
>>> >
>>> > I need url license and contact details.
>>> > Eventually, some acknowledgements to the software components that are
>>> > embedded in the software.
>>> > The last is I believe the right way for open-source software: namely the
>>> > acknowledge in your high level description about the work you reuse.
>>> > It also aids to trace some license issues if the software is going to be
>>> > used in a commercial setting.
>>> >
>>> > kind regards,
>>> >
>>> > Bert
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Bert Van Nuffelen
>>> >
>>> > Semantic Technologies Software Architect at TenForce
>>> > www.tenforce.be
>>> >
>>> > Bert.Van.Nuffelen at tenforce.com
>>> > Office: +32 (0)16 31 48 60
>>> > Mobile:+32 479 06 24 26
>>> > skype: bert.van.nuffelen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mark Wainwright, CKAN Community Co-ordinator
>>> Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/
>>> CKAN on Twitter: @CKANproject
>>>
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Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/
CKAN on Twitter: @CKANproject