Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Res: A licenses package?

Thanks for your response Carl, it seems a good suggestion.

I think that I would need an external url to refer me to the license and internationalize external urls, too. I've seen that exits a cateories_links table but I think that it isn't the purpose. It's posible that another categories needs an external url could be a good idea extend the categories datamodel in this sense.

There are some attributes to a license that I don't think that will be a good idea use categories:

• A rdf information with the license by example:

   <!--Creative Commons License-->
  <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" border="0" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png"/></a><br/>
  		This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License</a>.
  		<!--/Creative Commons License--><!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
  		<Work rdf:about="">
  			<license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/" />
  	<dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" />
  		</Work>
  		<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"/><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"/></License></rdf:RDF> -->
  

• The full license in a local copy (could be a good idea if the site of a license is broken frequently
• A summary of the license like the creative commons summaries by example this it will be a good idea if the official site is broken, again.

Perhaps could be a good idea start using categories, although after or before we will need use fields that won't be adequated in categories. For it I thought create a new packages from the begining.

Nevertheless I think that I am not good with the openacs design, so I thanks more suggestions 😊