2012-04-18 13:30:13 -07:00
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# Choose a License Web Site
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Like a Choose Your Own Adventure site, but only much less interesting.
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# Intro
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A lot of repositories on GitHub.com don't have a license. GitHub could slap on
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a license chooser, but if you don't know anything about licenses, how are you
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supposed to make an informed decision.
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ChooseALicense.com is designed to help people make an informed decision about
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licenses.
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# Immediate Goals
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* Politics Free - Let's just not get into it.
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* Well designed, but that goes without saying.
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* The homepage should have just enough to help 99% of folks make a decision.
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* For the 1%, the site will contain a license chooser similar to
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the [creative commons license chooser](http://creativecommons.org/choose/)
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2012-04-18 13:41:21 -07:00
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* Not comprehensive. Seems like an odd goal, but there are a bajillion
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(I counted) licenses out there. We're going to have to filter that down to a
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small list of those that matter.
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2012-04-18 13:30:13 -07:00
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# Design
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I think v1 of the site could be a completely static JavaScript site. No need
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for a back end until we actually need it.
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# Community
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We plan to build out the skeleton of the site privately first, but then open
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it up to accept contributions.
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Phil will look into whether various open source foundations and lawyers would
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be interested in being involved. Probably makes good sense to have a lawyer
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review the content before we post it live.
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