[ckan-dev] CKAN info

Wed Jul 18 10:21:04 UTC 2012

On 18 July 2012 10:57, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

It will be!  Genshi is the only templating (creating the pages) in ckan <=
1.8
from 1.9 (when the demo theme merges into master) we will also include
jinja2

Genshi will then remain for legacy support for some time before hopefully
fully retiring at some point in the future

but becoming legacy only is good enough for my dream

> 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 The first sentence of this description is a bit out of date.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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> >
> > --
> > Mark Wainwright, CKAN Community Co-ordinator
> > Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/
> > CKAN on Twitter: @CKANproject
>
>
>
> --
> Mark Wainwright, CKAN Community Co-ordinator
> Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/
> CKAN on Twitter: @CKANproject
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