The license of csl style files in repository
I'm curious about the license of the style files in the repository. Zotero itself is under Educational Community License, are the csl files under the same license?
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We can explicitly allow modification & reuse of the files in other programs (counter to the more restrictive EndNote style files).
While INAL, I think it would be nice to have a policy on this. Maybe all styles by default have one of the CC license, but one can choose from one or two others.
BTW, I'd really like to have help on the MakeCSL wizard idea, and I'd love for that to include a license checkbox and/or pop-up ;-)
- have a default license for the Zotero Style Repository for styles that haven't set a license? I guess this could be added upon committing a style just like the <updated/> element is filled.
- specify some licenses in CSL? This will make it easier later on to sort on certain license types.
- Advertised on all pages re. committing styles
- Could be over-ridden
- Not applied retroactively without style authors' permission
- Was suitably free (e.g. distribution/modification/commercial use allowed)
then it isn't a bad idea. Should "rights" be a mandatory branch in a valid CSL file, or does this add too much pain/bloat compared to what we want to fix? With the proliferation of licenses, I don't know if we should enumerate them & it definitely should not be required that people pick a license from a limited list. How about allowing something like:<link rel="rights" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/"/>
This would give a more canonical means of categorization without relying on the (free form) rights tag.BTW, should it be allowed at all to use certain more restrictive licenses? E.g. Attribution-No Derivative Works (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/) seems quite tricky, as all styles have a lot in common, and it is often impossible to tell which style served as a basis for a certain other style.