[License-discuss] [Webmaster] [Web Site] Suggestion for web site improvement

[Luis Villa]

[Move this to license-discuss from the board mailing list]

I definitely want to have text versions of licenses on the mailing list,
but exactly how we do that is still TBD (both in technical terms and in
terms of finding the manpower to make the switch).

In my ideal world, we store the licenses in markdown as the canonical
license version, and our CMS allows us to present both a rendered version
and the markdown version at the reader's convenience.

Luis

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm at opensource.org>wrote:

> Hi Jean,
>
> Luis Villa, the OSI licensing chair, is plannin to revamp the
> licensing pages.  I belive links to plain text versions are planned.
>
> Martin
>
> * mail at jbk.io <mail at jbk.io> [2014-01-06 16:38]:
> > Jean Krohn (mail at jbk.io) sent a message using the contact form at
> > http://opensource.org/contact.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you for your work with regard to promoting openness in software.
> >
> > I am currently developing some software and, looking for a trusted copy
> of
> > the
> > MIT license, searched for it, which lead me to your page on the MIT
> License
> > [1].
> > I was a little delayed by the fact that it does not seem to be directly
> > downloadable as a simple text file that can be added to a code repository
> > (though nothing a quick cut and paste cannot fix!)
> >
> > I would like to suggest a discreet 'download' link on the individual
> license
> > pages
> > to facilitate even more the use of your copy of the license.
> >
> > Thank you again for your work.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jean Krohn
> >
> > [1] http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
> >
> > P.S. your provider, Mollom, did not initially provide any way to send
> this
> > message through,  refusing to send it through thinking it was spam, and
> only
> > providing a captcha to verify a couple of day after my initial attempt...
> >
> > Report as inappropriate:
> > http://opensource.org/mollom/report/mollom_content/140104028acb3b499b
> >
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>
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> http://opensource.org/
>
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