[okfn-help] Licenses in CKAN

Tue May 5 11:16:27 BST 2009

Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Before commenting on the specific points I should say that for a while
> I've been thinking we should have a dedicated "licenses" module
> (code/text) that we can reuse across a bunch of projects and that
> lists the compliant licenses and provides generic extra headings (e.g.
> for non-open stuff). It would probably look something like:
> 
> <http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/svn/ckan/trunk/ckan/model/license.py>
> 

It would make more sense to establish an OPEN HOST SERVICE for licenses
(see p374 of Domain Driven Design).

http://codeidol.com/csharp/domain-driven-design/Maintaining-Model-Integrity/Open-Host-Service/

Just put an REST interface over the model, like with the CKAN API...

John.