osi (version 0.1.0)

license_by_keyword: Get OSI-listed licenses with a particular keyword

Description

license_by_keyword retrieves a list of all the metadata associated with OSI-listed licenses that contain a particular, user-provided keyword.

Usage

license_by_keyword(keyword, ...)

Arguments

keyword

The keyword to search for. Acceptable keywords are:

• osi-approved This license has been OSI Approved.
• redundant This license is redundant with a more widely used license.
• permissive
• copyleft This license requires derived works remain Open Source.
• obsolete This license is considered obsolete by its authors.
• miscellaneous
• popular This license is widely used.
• discouraged This license's use is actively discouraged.
• non-reusable This license isn't generally usable outside of the authoring organization.
• special-purpose This license suits a very special purpose.
• retired This license has been retired by the issuer.

...

arguments to pass to httr's GET.

Value

a list of licenses and their metadata (themselves in the form of lists) which can be provided to other functions such as license_text

See Also

license_text, which can consume the results of this function, as well as license_by_id for an alternate way of looking up particular licenses.

Examples

# Get copyleft licenses
copyleft_licenses <- license_by_keyword("copyleft")