Discussion: How to indicate, show service licences?

[khawkins98]

There's a discussion happening in the Web Content Committee and within EMBL-EBI about:

1. What licences are used by EMBL-EBI services; and
2. How should we consistently indicate and present these.

Part 2 fits within the remit of the Web Guidelines Committee and the EBI Visual Framework. So, how can we best facilitate that?

After a little thinking, here's an idea that's held up:

1. Indicate the licence with a meta tag:
   • <meta name="ebi:licence" content="cc-by-sa-4_0">
   • <meta name="ebi:licence-link" content="https://link-to-serivce-licence-info-page"> (optional)
2. That can be machine read and be consumed by the EBI Visual Framework so it can be programatically injected in the footer:
   • 

We should also decide if this goes in the local footer or global. A. Should the licence information stick together, or B. should we maintain the page structure.

A probably makes more sense to users, B probably makes more sense internally.

We'll need to bubble up this to the page structure information at http://wwwdev.ebi.ac.uk/style-lab/websites/meta-patterns/page-structure.html