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and are structured grant (permissions) conditioned on (conditions) with limitations Permissions coming first combats mistaken but apparently widespread impression that licenses impose conditions, even such that without a license, there would be no conditions/work would be in the public domain. Requirements->Conditions emphasizes that they are pertinent if one wants to take advantage of permissions. Forbiddens->Limitations is more accurate: in most cases licenses don't give permission to hold licensors liable, in some cases to use licensors' trademarks or patents, but a licensee does not lose the permissions granted by the license if the licensee holds licensor liable, etc. Also emphasizes that there are limitatations on the license grant, not that the license imposes prohibitions. The most concise place to see both the rename and reorder is in _includes/license-overview.html I did not reorder the appearance of the groups of properties in license source files (.txt files in _licenses) as those orderings are not used to render anything on the webiste. Might do so later.
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65 lines
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YAML
# Each license has YAML front matter describing the license's properties.
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# The available fields are:
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- name: title
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description: The SPDX-compliant, human-readable license name
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required: true
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- name: source
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description: The URL to the license source text
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required: true
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- name: description
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description: A human-readable description of the license
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required: true
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- name: how
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description: Instructions on how to implement the license
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required: true
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- name: conditions
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description: Bulleted list of required rules
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required: true
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- name: permissions
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description: Bulleted list of permitted rules
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required: true
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- name: limitations
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description: Bulleted list of limited rules
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required: true
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# Optional fields
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- name: note
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description: Additional information about the licenses
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required: false
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- name: using
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description: 'A list of notable projects using the license in the form of `project_name: "url"`'
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required: false
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- name: hidden
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description: Whether the license is hidden from the license list (defaults to true)
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required: false
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- name: redirect_from
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description: Relative path(s) to redirect to the license from, to prevent breaking old URLs
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required: false
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- name: featured
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description: Whether the license should be featured on the main page (defaults to false)
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required: false
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- name: nickname
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description: A shorter, human-readable license name where the SPDX license name (`title` above) is long
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required: false
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- name: variant
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description: Whether the license is a variant of a family of licenses (defaults to false)
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required: false
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- name: family
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description: If part of a license family, the name of the license family (e.g., `GPL`)
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required: false
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