Nice start! Quick comments, all in humble opinion which is why I didn't make edits directly...
- Any suggestions on the presentation of the information? i.e., is simple bold headings OK? Should we do some fancy table thing instead? Do you like/dislike the ": Information" and ": License Text" I added to the <h1> headers?
I think it should be clearly visually distinct from the text of the license itself, say in a different box with a different background color, just to make it clear to the first-time reader within a few seconds that this metadata is not the text of the license. The table of contents for the license and the text of the license should be more closely visually aligned than this metadata.
- Any comments on what information is/isn't presented? (If you must have extensive discussion of the existing categories or the desirability/possibility of getting more objective information, please change the email subject header :)
A link to both the submission and the notes from the board meeting where the license was approved would seem good.
The link to "license category" should go straight to the license category page, not to the proliferation committee report. On that page, each license category really should get the description/criteria for that category, rather than making the reader read through the report or guess from the list of licenses in each category to understand what the categories mean.
- Obviously this information will not all be available for all licenses. In those cases, should we simply omit reference to the information, or should we say something like "Canonical text: the canonical text is no longer available" or "OSI discussion: this license was approved before OSI's current mail archive system, and so the discussion is no longer available"? I think the latter.
The latter, though it would be really good to dig up archives and post them, perhaps specifically board meeting minutes where the licenses were approved.
- MOST IMPORTANTLY: Any volunteers to gather more information for more licenses?
I'll throw a hat in the ring as this gets more feedback. Brian
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