[od-discuss] Storage of license texts in the repo - a first pass

Thu Jun 27 16:38:46 UTC 2013

sounds good. we can always move stuff later if needed :-)

Rufus

On 27 June 2013 17:32, Herb Lainchbury <herb at dynamic-solutions.com> wrote:

> I'm +1 on the shorter path.
>
> I trying to sort out what the shorter names should be.   I was thinking we
> could use something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 for
> country codes but that obviously won't work for the smaller jurisdictions.
>  Maybe we just start with names that seem to make sense to us, like:
>
> /licenses/conformant/OGL-UK-2.0.md
> /licenses/inreview/OGL-CA-2.0.md
> /licenses/inreview/OGL-BC-2.0.md
> /licenses/inreview/OGL-AB-2.0.md
>
> ?
>
> H
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> On 26 June 2013 20:54, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure what a directory per license buys. I'd suggest
>>> /licenses/{conformant|inreview|nonconformant}/{license short name}.md
>>>
>>> Or if a directory per license is really needed (if envisioning lots of
>>> related files being kept), the filename ought be just {license short
>>> name}.md or license.md
>>
>>
>> I just imagined we'd end up with different possible versions, english
>> versus german translations etc. I'm happy with the simpler approach and on
>> KISS basis let's do that - so as you suggest:
>>
>> /licenses/{conformant|inreview|nonconformant}/{license short name}.md
>>
>>
>>>
>>> And {license short name} really ought be same as used in
>>> https://spdx.org/licenses/ or following that style.
>>>
>>
>> We won't be storing open-source licenses (right?) so we should have the
>> same short names. In terms of style what exactly is the SPDX "style"?
>>
>> Rufus
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> Herb Lainchbury
> Dynamic Solutions Inc.
> www.dynamic-solutions.com
> http://twitter.com/herblainchbury
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