License mapping

In RegisteredCommons.org we just had mapped some standard licenses with their links to the license text and one generic "full copyright" (pointing to a Wikipedia article, which is really not a perfect source for deciding on the license). How could we do it better?

The project DALICC allows to define a license in a granular manner and an RDF metadata can be exported. See their license composer https://www.dalicc.net/license-composer and their API https://api.dalicc.net/docs - we have contacted the head of the DALICC team, which is also just running a netidee project in the same period but could not make it for a meeting yet.

Creative Commons metadata is described by the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (CC REL), see their WIKI https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Metadata .

changed the description

Wikipedia copyright tags

When uploading works at Wikipedia, you have to assign a license tag in the format e.g. {{cc-by-4.0}}. See the full list.

changed the description

mentioned in issue #11 (closed)

This was a paper we had presented at a COMMUNIA meeting in Turin 2009 about copyright license semantics https://www.slideshare.net/rasos/semantic-copyright-expression-options

SPDX

This is a new ISO standard ISO/IEC 5962:2021 for describing software and licenses in an RDF metadata language.

SPDX allows to use a short identifier for several standard licenses. This is a dual licensing example:

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

Here is their list of licenses https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/SPDX-license-list/

We would need to find out how to map "full copyrighted" software / works, proably join the SPDX legal team bi-weekly calls.

Here is the syntax of the full RDF metadata for licenses

quick comment: LOSH also relies on SPDX identifiers :) (all data on LOSH is stored in RDF)

• Multiple licensing: up to 5 fields

• Licence for Full Copyright (all rights reserved): display in spdx?

assigned to @lisa.kostrzewa

mentioned in issue #14

SPDX monthly call

Hi all,

We have our regular 4th Thursday of the month legal team meeting in just under an hour. We'll tend to the usual issues and I'm also hoping to talk a bit about updates to the Matching Guidelines.

See you all then! Jilayne

4th Thursday of the month, 17:00

License for Full Copyright:

SPDX-License-Identfier: NONE

https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/file-information/#85-concluded-license-field

Ongoing discussion on full copyright in the SPDX-legal list: https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/topic/spdx_do_we_need_a/90278363

changed the description

changed the description

We will provide a full and a short list of licenses.

Here is the full list as json https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/main/json/licenses.json

Below is a suggested short list - any important license missing? @rsc

{
    "reference": "",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "",
    "referenceNumber": 0,
    "name": "NO LICENSE ASSIGNED YET",
    "licenseId": "NOASSERTION",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/file-information/#85-concluded-license-field"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false,
    "isFsfLibre": false
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "",
    "referenceNumber": 0,
    "name": "Full Copyright",
    "licenseId": "NONE",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false,
    "isFsfLibre": false
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 189,
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
    "licenseId": "CC-BY-4.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 36,
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International",
    "licenseId": "CC-BY-SA-4.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 237,
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International",
    "licenseId": "CC-BY-NC-4.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false,
    "isFsfLibre": false
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 253,
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International",
    "licenseId": "CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 415,
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International",
    "licenseId": "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-ND-4.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-ND-4.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 74,
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 4.0 International",
    "licenseId": "CC-BY-ND-4.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false,
    "isFsfLibre": false
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 331,
    "name": "Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal",
    "licenseId": "CC0-1.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 120,
    "name": "Apache License 2.0",
    "licenseId": "Apache-2.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0",
      "https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-or-later.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-or-later.json",
    "referenceNumber": 382,
    "name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later",
    "licenseId": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.txt",
      "https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CERN-OHL-P-2.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CERN-OHL-P-2.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 333,
    "name": "CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Permissive",
    "licenseId": "CERN-OHL-P-2.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://www.ohwr.org/project/cernohl/wikis/Documents/CERN-OHL-version-2"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CERN-OHL-S-2.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CERN-OHL-S-2.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 162,
    "name": "CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Strongly Reciprocal",
    "licenseId": "CERN-OHL-S-2.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://www.ohwr.org/project/cernohl/wikis/Documents/CERN-OHL-version-2"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CERN-OHL-W-2.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CERN-OHL-W-2.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 22,
    "name": "CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Weakly Reciprocal",
    "licenseId": "CERN-OHL-W-2.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://www.ohwr.org/project/cernohl/wikis/Documents/CERN-OHL-version-2"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/EUPL-1.2.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/EUPL-1.2.json",
    "referenceNumber": 212,
    "name": "European Union Public License 1.2",
    "licenseId": "EUPL-1.2",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/page/eupl-text-11-12",
      "https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/custom-page/attachment/eupl_v1.2_en.pdf",
      "https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/custom-page/attachment/2020-03/EUPL-1.2%20EN.txt",
      "https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/inline-files/EUPL%20v1_2%20EN(1).txt",
      "http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri\u003dCELEX:32017D0863",
      "https://opensource.org/licenses/EUPL-1.2"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-or-later.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-or-later.json",
    "referenceNumber": 484,
    "name": "GNU General Public License v3.0 or later",
    "licenseId": "GPL-3.0-or-later",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html",
      "https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.json",
    "referenceNumber": 477,
    "name": "MIT License",
    "licenseId": "MIT",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/MPL-2.0.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/MPL-2.0.json",
    "referenceNumber": 115,
    "name": "Mozilla Public License 2.0",
    "licenseId": "MPL-2.0",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/",
      "https://opensource.org/licenses/MPL-2.0"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  }
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0+.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": true,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0+.json",
    "referenceNumber": 105,
    "name": "GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later",
    "licenseId": "LGPL-3.0+",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0-standalone.html",
      "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl+gpl-3.0.txt",
      "https://opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": true,
    "isFsfLibre": true
  },
  {
    "reference": "https://spdx.org/licenses/LAL-1.3.html",
    "isDeprecatedLicenseId": false,
    "detailsUrl": "https://spdx.org/licenses/LAL-1.3.json",
    "referenceNumber": 131,
    "name": "Licence Art Libre 1.3",
    "licenseId": "LAL-1.3",
    "seeAlso": [
      "https://artlibre.org/"
    ],
    "isOsiApproved": false
  }

see #30 (closed)

I'd also add CERN OHL v1.2 – it's the last CERN OHL that is compatible with GPL :)

When it comes to comparing which license fits best a nice unified description model has just been published together with an online tool.

We carefully studied the text of 103 licenses, identified the terms, extracted them and semantically grouped them.

• Tool: https://sihem.pythonanywhere.com
• Feedback questionnaire: https://cutt.ly/G0eiq92
• Paper: https://cutt.ly/P0wsuAv
• Demo video: https://youtu.be/VwzBq7XBTvk

We should link to the tool (or probably host a slightly adapted version without questionnaire) in some FAQs or from the license choosing page. The OSLiFe-DiSC tool is AGPL (but I have not found a link to the repository yet).

Suggested text in UI @mr.monz.philipp :

Search and compare licenses which fit best to your needs with OSLiFe-DiSC or DALICC.

closed