Licenses, list of most used ones

[ppKrauss]

List all useful (non-vanity) licenses, not only the open ones. Of course, the main are the open, and there are a lot of JSON materal at okfn/licenses, about licenses, but no "official CSV dataset". This licenses.csv is a draft proposal.

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The prepare and maintenance will be simple, :

1. converts the JSON data, as examplified at https://github.com/ppKrauss/dataset_licenses
2. Use the context column (that was empty at JSON data), with a new semantic: the inferred "canonical license" of each license, to group similar ones.
3. Add some more licenses, because the license list is a "knowledge source", not only a tool for open-licence advocacy.

Example of family: the licences OGL-UK-1.0, OPL-1.0, CC-BY-2.0, CC-BY-4.0, etc.are similar and can be grouped into a family. We elected the CC-BY as representant of the group, so cc-by is the label of the family (and CC-BY is the canonical license of the family).

[ppKrauss]

Sorry, I changed the text of the issue, now is more simple and readable... ignore email text and use updated at datasets/registry/issues/118.

[pdehaye]

This looks very good, and useful. I would recommend adding rows for intermediate licenses though: if this is meant as a reference, it might be that someone wants to mark their stuff using now obsolete licenses?
Also, the maintainer type is a string, not a number, in the datapackage.json

[ppKrauss]

Hi @pdehaye , thanks (!), now I review, adding more 2 csv files, and correctiong datapackage.json. See dataset_licenses... I think now the project have a more definitive aspect.

[pdehaye]

I think the name has to match what is in the datapackage.json, so the name of this dataset should be changed from dataset_licenses to licenses.

The sources listed in the datapackage.json don't match the sources in the README.md.

Also, implied.csv 's format is not documented in datapackage.json. (also, spelling wrong: "inffering" is actually "inferring")

[ppKrauss]

@pdehaye , thanks. I changed the project's name to licenses, corrected spelling problems, and added the cited (in progress) implied.csv in the datapackage.

[ppKrauss]

Hi @pdehaye , do you see okfn/licenses/issues/45? Perhaps we can join efforts there...