An API Commons schema for publishing a provider’s data license layer as machine-readable data. The license on the data an API returns, separate from the interface license on the contract, expressed with SPDX identifiers where possible.
API Commons Data License
The API Commons Data License schema is one of eight business layers that make the political side of an API machine-readable, beside the technical contract. The license on the data an API returns, separate from the interface license on the contract, expressed with SPDX identifiers where possible.
It profiles existing work rather than inventing: see SPDX. Generated documents for catalog providers are stamped with x-apis-io-derivation and live in each provider’s repository; the schema, under Apache 2.0, is at github.com/api-commons/data-license.
Background: The Technical Side Translated. The Business Side Did Not.
Industry: api-specification
