https://github.com/okfn/licenses

Open source and open knowledge (data and content) licenses together with API and web service.
https://github.com/okfn/licenses

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Open source and open knowledge (data and content) licenses together with API and web service.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/okfn/licenses
• Owner: okfn
• Created: 2011-12-01T11:33:33.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-03T21:37:24.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T12:35:56.737Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: licenses, open-content, open-data, open-source
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://licenses.opendefinition.org/
• Size: 459 KB
• Stars: 64
• Watchers: 33
• Forks: 29
• Open Issues: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: licenses.csv
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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README

        
Machine readable list of licenses and web service - see https://licenses.opendefinition.org/.

For more information, including details of web service usage, see

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## License

All data (and associated content) is placed in the Public Domain using the

[Public Domain Dedication and

License](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/). All code is licensed

under the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).

## Contributions

Your contributions are very welcome. [Learn how you can help](./CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Layout


README.md

index.html # home page

licenses/{id}.json # json versions of licenses

licenses/jsonp/{id}.js # jsonp

licenses/groups/ # special groups of licenses

bin/ # scripts



Note: groups and jsonp versions are generated as part of the build and deploy

process for the service.

## Build and Deployment

To build files for deployment do:

    bin/deploy.py run

For deployment simply upload the current directory files to a relevant online location.

We currently use github pages (we previously used s3).

The changes in each [release](https://github.com/okfn/licenses/releases) are recorded in the [Change Log](./CHANGELOG.md).