Licensing content for your capsule

[Steve Winslow]

Hi marc,

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 11:44:36PM +0100, marc wrote:
> 
> But my motivation for suggesting a format for
> a license notice at the end of a .gmi file
> is a bit different. It is not there to 
> make prosecution of "pirates" easier, but to
> facilitate reuse.
> 
> <snip>
>
> And if these statements are embedded in .gmi files,
> tools can be built which parse this. 
>

Some FOSS licensing minutiae that most folks might not care about,
but sharing anyway  :)

If you're looking for a way to embed machine-parseable license info,
I'd suggest using SPDX short-form identifiers [1]. This is a
standardized way to embed one of the SPDX license IDs [2] into a work
in a way that is easily greppable, in a format such as the following
-- showing CC-BY-SA-4.0 as Drew suggested earlier:

  SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0

The Linux kernel and several other FOSS projects have started adopting
identifiers like this, among other reasons to minimize the cruft of
multi-line comments with license headers and the like.

(Disclosure: I'm involved with the SPDX project, so I'm biased and
also interested in this stuff more than is probably healthy.)

Steve

[1] https://spdx.dev/ids
[2] https://spdx.org/licenses