Create LICENSE.md

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Issue by KoalaGeo
Tue Jan 12 15:06:35 2021
Originally opened as AGIuk/Schematron#5

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Contains OGL licence text

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KoalaGeo included the following code: https://github.com/AGIuk/Schematron/pull/5/commits

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Comment by PeterParslow
Tue Jan 12 15:48:25 2021

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Should the licence simply be 'by reference' to the OGL at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

I'm not sure it's good to copy their text into here.

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Comment by KoalaGeo
Tue Jan 12 16:01:32 2021

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My mistake the readme states CC-BY-4.0, so changed licence file to this not OGL

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Comment by PeterParslow
Tue Jan 12 16:08:08 2021

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Good catch - but should it be just the URL or is there good reason to copy the text?

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Comment by KoalaGeo
Tue Jan 12 20:21:16 2021

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That's how GitHub expects you to do it either when you initalise a repo or add a license later, you add all the text to the LICENCE file, GitHub then "reads" this and adds the license buttons to the repo with links.

See my branch in the "About" on the left it says what license the repo is - https://github.com/KoalaGeo/Schematron

Docs on adding a license - https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/building-a-strong-community/adding-a-license-to-a-repository

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Comment by PeterParslow
Wed Jan 13 08:04:04 2021

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Well, that's frankly bizarre of GitHub, so I've asked about it: https://github.community/t/gtihub-approach-to-licence-why-copy-text/155217

CC-BY's preferred way of being cited is by reference, that's why they provide the persistent versioned dereferenceable URIs. See e.g. https://creativecommons.org/choose/results-one?license_code=by&jurisdiction=&version=2.0&lang=en

So, should we adopt GitHub's preferred approach, or CCs?

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Comment by PeterParslow
Wed Jan 13 08:28:49 2021

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Here's an OGC example: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ets-omxml20/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

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Comment by KoalaGeo
Wed Jan 13 13:39:16 2021

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The text is pulled from a template from a site GitHub curates https://choosealicense.com/
CC-BT-4.0 - https://choosealicense.com/licenses/cc-by-4.0/
This links to https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html
And from there to the actual licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

For end users, using GitHub's preferred approach makes things clearer , it also integrates with their API https://github.blog/2015-03-09-open-source-license-usage-on-github-com/