Plain-text form of licenses

[Juergen Weigert]

On Jun 18, 07 07:23:59 -0700, David Dillard wrote:
> That doesn't always work so well, for example the 'color="#000000">' in
> the text of the MPL 1.1
> (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php). :-)

w3m -dump  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php
or
lynx -dump http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php

give nice ascii representations. 
You just need to trim start and end.

        cheers,
                Jw.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Russ Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 12:31 AM
> > To: Daniel Macks
> > Cc: license-discuss at opensource.org
> > Subject: Re: Plain-text form of licenses
> > 
> > Daniel Macks writes:
> >  > Are the licenses available in plain-text form? Starting 
> > from  >  > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
> >  >
> >  > I can get to a .php link to a full webpage for each, but 
> > that gives  > HTMLish formating of the license itself and 
> > also the opensource.org  > banner and left-side navigation 
> > box. What I'd like is direct access to  > *just* the text of 
> > the license, something I could download and stash  > in a 
> > LICENSE (.txt not .html) in my package.
> > 
> > Try cut-n-paste.
> > 
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