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Document criteria for proposing new licenses
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@ -6,17 +6,26 @@ We love Pull Requests! Your contributions help make ChooseALicense.com great.
So you want to contribute to ChooseALicense. Great! We welcome any help we can
get. But first, please make sure you understand what
[this site is all about](http://choosealicense.com/about).
[this site is all about](http://choosealicense.com/about). It’s not a comprehensive list of all possible licenses.
It’s not a comprehensive list of all possible licenses.
## Adding a license
If you understand the goals of this site and still want to suggest a change,
please:
Choosealicense.com is intended to demystify license choices, not present all of them. As such, there are several requirements for a license to be listed on the site:
* Make sure you have a [GitHub account](https://github.com/signup/free)
* Submit a ticket for your issue, assuming one does not already exist.
* Clearly describe the issue including steps to reproduce when it is a bug.
* Make sure you fill in the earliest version that you know has the issue.
1. The license must have [an SPDX identifier](https://spdx.org/licenses/). If your license isn't registered with SPDX, please [request that it be added](https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license-or-exception).
2. The license must be listed on one of the following approved lists of licenses:
* [List of OSI approved licenses](https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical)
* [GNU's list of free licenses](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html) (*note: the license must be listed in one of thre three "free" categories*)
* [Open Definition's list of conformant licenses](http://opendefinition.org/licenses/) (non-code)
3. A [GitHub code search](https://github.com/search?q=MIT+filename%3ALICENSE&type=Code) must reveal at least *1,000* public repositories using the license
If your proposed license meets the above criteria, here's a few other things to keep in mind as you propose the license's addition:
* Licenses live in the `/_licenses` folder.
* Each license has both [required and optional metadata](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com#license-metadata) that should be included.
* The text of the license should be wrapped to a 78 character width.
* The body of the file should be the text of the license in plain text.
* Almost without exception, new licenses should be added as hidden (`hidden: true` in the YAML front matter), such that they are directly linkable and detectable, but not otherwise listed.
## Making Changes

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gem "jekyll-seo-tag"
group :test do
gem "html-proofer"
gem 'html-proofer', '2.5.2'
gem "rake"
gem "rspec"
gem "nokogiri"
end

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remote: https://rubygems.org/
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blankslate (2.1.2.4)
classifier-reborn (2.0.4)
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jekyll-seo-tag
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README.md
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@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ Like a Choose Your Own Adventure site, but only much less interesting.
A lot of repositories on GitHub.com don't have a license. GitHub provides a license chooser, but if you don't know anything about licenses, how are you supposed to make an informed decision?
[ChooseALicense.com](http://www.choosealicense.com "Choose A Licence website") is designed to help people make an informed decision about licenses.
[ChooseALicense.com](http://www.choosealicense.com "Choose A Licence website") is designed to help people make an informed decision about licenses by demystifying license choices through non-judgmental guidance.
## Immediate Goals
* Non-partisan. Our goal is to help you find a license that meets *your* goals.
* Non-judgmental. Our goal is to help you find a license that meets *your* goals.
* Well designed, but that goes without saying.
* The homepage should have just enough to help 99% of folks make a decision.
* For the 1%, the site will contain a list of licenses common to specific communities and situations.
@ -28,11 +28,9 @@ script/server
```
Open `http://localhost:4000` in your favorite browser.
## Adding a license
## License metadata
Licenses sit in the `/_licenses` folder. The text of the license should be wrapped to a 78 character width. Each license has YAML front matter describing the license's properties. The body of the file should be the text of the license in plain text. The available metadata fields are:
### YAML front matter
Licenses sit in the `/_licenses` folder. Each license has YAML front matter describing the license's properties. The body of the file contains the text of the license in plain text. The available metadata fields are:
#### Required fields

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task :test do
sh "bundle exec jekyll build --trace"
HTML::Proofer.new("./_site", :check_html => true).run
Rake::Task["spec"].invoke
HTML::Proofer.new("./_site", :check_html => true).run
end
task :approved_licenses do
require './spec/spec_helper'
approved = approved_licenses
approved.select! { |l| spdx_ids.include?(l) }
puts "#{approved.count} approved licenses:"
puts approved.join(", ")
puts "\n"
potential = approved - licenses.map { |l| l["id"] }
puts "#{potential.count} potential additions:"
puts potential.join(", ")
end

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require 'spec_helper'
# List of licenses that need not be OSI approved
LICENSE_WHITELIST = %w[
unlicense
cc0-1.0
wtfpl
bsd-3-clause-clear
]
licenses.each do |license|
# "No license" isn't really a license, so no need to test
next if license["id"] == "no-license"
describe "The #{license["title"]} license" do
describe "SPDX compliance" do
# "No license" isn't really a license, so no need to test
unless license["id"] == "no-license"
it "#{license["id"]} should be a valid SPDX ID" do
expect(find_spdx(license["id"])).to_not be_nil
end
it "should be the proper SPDX name" do
spdx = find_spdx(license["id"])
expect(spdx[1]["name"].gsub(/ only$/,"")).to eql(license["title"])
end
let(:id) { license["id"] }
# CC0 and Unlicense are not OSI approved, but that's okay
unless LICENSE_WHITELIST.include? license["id"]
it "should be OSI approved" do
spdx = find_spdx(license["id"])
approved = spdx[1]["osiApproved"]
expect(approved).to eql(true)
end
end
it "has an SPDX ID" do
expect(spdx_ids).to include(id)
end
it "uses its SPDX name" do
spdx = find_spdx(id)
expect(spdx[1]["name"].gsub(/ only$/,"")).to eql(license["title"])
end
context "industry approval" do
it "should be approved by OSI or FSF or OD" do
expect(approved_licenses).to include(id), "See https://git.io/vzCTV."
end
end
end

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require 'jekyll'
require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'
def config_file
File.expand_path "./_config.yml", source
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$spdx ||= JSON.parse(open(url).read)
end
def spdx_ids
spdx_list.map { |name, properties| name.downcase }
end
def find_spdx(license)
spdx_list.find { |name, properties| name.downcase == license }
end
def osi_approved_licenses
$osi_approved_licenses ||= begin
licenses = {}
list = spdx_list.select { |id, meta| meta["osiApproved"] }
list.each do |id, meta|
licenses[id.downcase] = meta["name"]
end
licenses
end
end
def fsf_approved_licenses
$fsf_approved_licenses ||= begin
url = "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html"
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url).read)
list = doc.css(".green dt")
licenses = {}
list.each do |license|
a = license.css("a").find { |link| !link.text.nil? && !link.text.empty? && link.attr("id") }
next if a.nil?
id = a.attr("id").downcase
name = a.text.strip
licenses[id] = name
end
# FSF approved the Clear BSD, but doesn't use its SPDX ID or Name
if licenses.keys.include? "clearbsd"
licenses["bsd-3-clause-clear"] = licenses["clearbsd"]
end
licenses
end
end
def od_approved_licenses
$od_approved_licenses ||= begin
url = "http://licenses.opendefinition.org/licenses/groups/od.json"
data = open(url).read
data = JSON.parse(data)
licenses = {}
data.each do |id, meta|
licenses[id.downcase] = meta["title"]
end
licenses
end
end
def approved_licenses
(osi_approved_licenses.keys + fsf_approved_licenses.keys + od_approved_licenses.keys).flatten.uniq.sort
end