Machine-readable licenses?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Andrea Chiarelli wrote:
> Does anybody know a project aiming to define a machine-readable
> language in order to describe Open Source software licenses?
> Something similar to CC REL (http://www.w3.org/Submission/ccREL/)?

They already have machine-readable code for GPLv2
(http://creativecommons.org/choose/work-html-popup?license_code=GPL) and
LGPLv2.1
(http://creativecommons.org/choose/work-html-popup?license_code=LGPL).
There is no reason this scheme can't be extended for other licenses.

Matthew Flaschen