license_by_keyword: Get OSI-listed licenses with a particular keyword

In osi: Open Source Initiative API Connector

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")

osi documentation built on May 29, 2017, 7 p.m.