Joe Murray <[email protected]> writes: >What I really want help with is someone to a) proofread the text that >I change from html to text, and b) to provide feedback / direction on >matters like whether it would be okay to create separate nodes with >different names for version x and version x or later licenses on >opensource.org.
A technical suggestion: If we use Markdown as the plaintext format -- which would be reasonable, as every license I can think of would look fine both as Markdown source text and as HTML rendered from that -- then we can just use Drupal's Markdown format as the default format for all licenses. This would enable us to use the same underlying source for both on-site HTML and plaintext versions. Right now, our licenses are all in "Full HTML" format. For example, if you go to http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0 and and click on Edit (you'll need to be logged in), you'll see that http://opensource.org/node/41/edit is set to "Full HTML". What I'm proposing is that we redo them all as "Markdown" instead, such that http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0 still looks basically as it does now (Drupal will render the Markdown as HTML), but if someone visits a special URL, then they get the raw Markdown source, which happens to be a good plaintext version of the license. That special URL would be something like one of these: http://opensource.org/licenses/txt/Apache-2.0 http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.txt http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.md (I'm not sure which one I prefer; this is just to give you an idea.) Some custom coding -- maybe a new module that we release? -- would be necessary to achieve this, but the benefit over time would be big: we only need to maintain one master source for every license. I don't have experience writing Drupal modules, but from an admin and user perspective, the above achieves our goals I think. -Karl _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
