[License-discuss] further license presentation improvements? (inc. call for help)

[Luis Villa]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
>
> Per Karl's last email, it looks like the next step is to edit every
> license page to add a link to the FAQ. Since someone will be doing
> that anyway, I'd like to suggest a slightly more involved task -
> enhancing the license pages by linking to background information about
> the licenses.
>
> In particular, putting these two links (if they exist) into every
> license entry seems like it would be useful/informative:
>
> 1)  A canonical informational page for the license. So, for example,
> http://mozilla.org/MPL/ (which links to FAQs, etc.) not the plain text
> at http:/mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/index.txt.
>
> 2) The archived OSI discussion about acceptance of the license,
> starting with the official license submission. For example, for MPL,
> this would be: http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2011-December/000005.html

This is still an open task people can help with! I've revised the wiki
page a little bit, but it is still there:

http://wiki.opensource.org/license_comment_sweep

Ping me if you need a wiki account; happy to set you up.

Luis