{"id":12045,"date":"2023-03-30T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/open-source-approved-license-registry-project-underway-with-help-of-intern-giulia-dellanoce\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T22:10:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T20:10:35","slug":"open-source-approved-license-registry-project-underway-with-help-of-intern-giulia-dellanoce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/open-source-approved-license-registry-project-underway-with-help-of-intern-giulia-dellanoce\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Approved License\u00ae\u00a0registry project underway with help of intern, Giulia Dellanoce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shared last month the details of the new OSI website, hosted on WordPress. One of the main drivers for this upgrade was to unify OSI-approved licenses with all related metadata to a consistent, reliable and easy-to-access format. From there we can incorporate the outcome of the recommendations\u00a0coming out of the License Review Working Group.<br \/>\nOn the new site, we have created a database structure that includes metadata: category, version, release date, SPDX identifier, license steward, approval date, link to board minutes, canonical URL, leaving space to add more details like tags, all in a standardized, searchable format. You can see the database it in its current state here.<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s really exciting is we have hired an intern, Giulia Dellanoce, to get this important project underway! Giulia will review the list of licenses and add all the missing metadata. Each record will have the following data and metadata:<\/p>\n<p>Name of license<br \/>\nText of license<br \/>\nVersion of license<br \/>\nDate license was submitted<br \/>\nURL evidencing submission (mailman archives or other evidence, if there is any)<br \/>\nDate license was approved<br \/>\nURL evidencing approval \u2013 ideally board minutes, email archive reporting approval as second choice<br \/>\nLicense contact \u2013 name of person who submitted the license for approval<br \/>\nLicense steward \u2013 name of person or entity that drafted the license<br \/>\nDate an approved license was voluntarily retired or license steward reported it was superseded<br \/>\nURL evidencing withdrawal of license<br \/>\nSPDX identifier<br \/>\nNotes about the license, if there are any comments on the current pages or from the board approval<\/p>\n<p>And if we find the need to add more fields as he work progresses, we can do so in order to store data from the past in a structured format.<br \/>\nGiulia is coming on board with three major tasks:<\/p>\n<p>Find and fill in all the missing metadata on the published License pages, as they\u2019re currently available on opensource.org\/licenses.<br \/>\nReview the mailing list archives and past board decisions to make sure that the list is complete.<br \/>\nIdentify the licenses that have been reviewed and not\u00a0approved, and those that have been submitted and either not approved or have been retracted.<\/p>\n<p>OSI\u2019s top priority is to modernize how the Open Source community identifies which licenses have gained OSI approval and maintain opensource.org as a trusted online authority. This Approval Registry will serve as a comprehensive and authoritative resource of all licenses so organizations can be confident that the license they choose for their project complies with the Open Source Definition, allowing software to be freely used, modified, shared and monetized.<br \/>\nPlease join us in welcoming Giulia to the OSI community! She comes to us after earning her Master\u2019s Degree and spending some time working at a law firm, a startup and as a intern at the Public Prosecutor\u2019s office in Pavia in Italy.<br \/>\nAlso join us in thanking Slim.AI, who\u2019s donation to OSI is supporting this internship. Slim.AI, working to optimize and secure cloud-native applications, is a champion of Open Source. Their Open Source Slim Toolkit\u00a0inspects, optimizes and debugs containers, and is licensed under an Apache 2 license. Slim.AI recognizes the benefit they and other companies receive by having a trustable, centralized list of Open Source Approved License\u00ae\u00a0 accessible via API.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WordPress-Featured-Images-2-1024x536-1.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: opensource.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shared last month the details of the new OSI website, hosted on WordPress. 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