Request to Integrate with SPDX license list web page

[goneall]

Greetings,
I currently maintain the software which generates the HTML pages for spdx.org/licenses. There has been a few requests to include JSON on the web pages directly. I am far from expert in JavaScript/JSON, so I could use some help in integrating the work you've done.

The site is generated using a Java application whose main entrypoint can be found here: https://github.com/goneall/SPDX-Tools/blob/master/src/org/spdx/tools/LicenseRDFAGenerator.java

The templates for the index page and individual license pages can be found here: https://github.com/goneall/SPDX-Tools/tree/master/resources

After looking through your code, here's what I'm thinking - feedback appreciated:

• Add JSON format for the license ID, OSI Approved, and full name directly to the index.html page (TOCHtmlTemplate.txt in the resource folder).
• Add all fields (above + other web pages, text, template, standard license header) for each of the license HTML files (LicenseHTMLTemplate.txt in the resource folder).

Let me know your thoughts/feedback. You can also email me directly at gary@sourceauditor.com.

Thanks,
Gary

[stdarg]

I'd be happy to help. I could do that. A dependent task that should be completed first, though would be to automate the import of the license information. For this project, I just manually scrapped the data from http://spdx.org/licenses/. However, I could automate that.

Is the best source of data for the licenses https://github.com/goneall/SPDX-Tools/blob/master/resources/stdlicenses ?

Let me know. I'd be happy to help.

[bufferoverflow]

official git repo is here: http://git.spdx.org/license-list.git

[goneall]

Sorry about the delay replying to your earlier comment. Thanks for the help!

The official git is a good source, but be sure to use the release tags to get a released version.

You can look at the Java source code for the LicenseRDFaGenerator example code which uses the files stored in the git repo as a source.

You can also use RDFa to access the web page. There is a document describing some of the specifics at http://sourceauditor.com/spdx/AccessingSPDXLicensesv-1.0.pdf

I can also add the JSON code directly to the web pages at spdx.org/licenses by adding the JSON code generation to the LicenseRDFaGenerator java code. I'd be happy to do this if you could review the generated JSON code and let me know if I missed anything.