OSF Licenses API
The Licenses API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for licenses.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: OSF APIv2 Documentation Licenses API
description: This is the official documentation for the OSF (Open Science Framework) API v2.
version: '2.0'
termsOfService: https://osf.io/terms_of_use/
contact:
name: OSF Support Team
email: support@osf.io
url: https://help.osf.io/
license:
name: Apache 2.0
url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
x-logo:
url: https://cdn.cos.io/media/images/cos_center_logo_small.original.png
backgroundColor: transparent
servers:
- url: https://api.test.osf.io/v2
tags:
- name: Licenses
paths:
/licenses/:
get:
summary: List all licenses
description: 'A paginated list of licenses. The returned licenses are sorted by their name.
#### Returns
Returns a JSON object containing `data` and `links` keys.
The `data` key contains an array of 10 licenses. Each resource in the array is a separate license object and contains the full representation of the license, meaning additional requests to a license''s detail view are not necessary.
The `links` key contains a dictionary of links that can be used for pagination.
This request should never return an error.
#### Filtering
You can optionally request that the response only include licenses that match your filters by utilizing the `filter` query parameter, e.g. [https://api.osf.io/v2/licenses/?filter[name]=apache](https://api.osf.io/v2/licenses/?filter[name]=apache).
Licenses may be filtered by their `id`, and `name`.'
tags:
- Licenses
operationId: license_list
x-response-schema: License
responses:
'200':
description: OK
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
type: object
title: License
properties:
id:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The identifier of the license.
type:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The type identifier of the license (`license`).
attributes:
type: object
title: Attributes
readOnly: true
description: The properties of the license.
properties:
name:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: Name of the license.
text:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: Full text of the license.
required_fields:
type: array
readOnly: true
description: Fields required for this license (provided to help front-end validators). Maps to properties on the NodeLicense model.
items:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: Individual fields required by this license.
links:
type: object
title: Links
readOnly: true
description: URLs to alternative representations of the license.
properties:
self:
type: string
format: URL
readOnly: true
description: A link to the detail page for the license.
example:
data:
- links:
self: https://api.osf.io/v2/licenses/563c1cf88c5e4a3877f9e968/
attributes:
text: 'Copyright (c) {{year}}, {{copyrightHolders}}
All rights reserved.
The full descriptive text of the License.
'
required_fields:
- year
- copyrightHolders
name: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
type: licenses
id: 563c1cf88c5e4a3877f9e968
links:
first: ''
last: https://api.osf.io/v2/licenses/?page=2
prev: ''
next: https://api.osf.io/v2/licenses/?page=2
meta:
total: 16
per_page: 10
/license/{license_id}/:
get:
summary: Retrieve a license
description: 'Retrieves the details of a license.
#### Returns
Returns a JSON object with a `data` key containing the representation of the requested license, if the request is successful.
If the request is unsuccessful, an `errors` key containing information about the failure will be returned. Refer to the list of error codes to understand why this request may have failed.'
parameters:
- in: path
required: true
name: license_id
description: The unique identifier of the license.
schema:
type: string
tags:
- Licenses
operationId: licenses_read
x-response-schema: License
responses:
'200':
description: OK
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
title: License
properties:
id:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The identifier of the license.
type:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The type identifier of the license (`license`).
attributes:
type: object
title: Attributes
readOnly: true
description: The properties of the license.
properties:
name:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: Name of the license.
text:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: Full text of the license.
required_fields:
type: array
readOnly: true
description: Fields required for this license (provided to help front-end validators). Maps to properties on the NodeLicense model.
items:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: Individual fields required by this license.
links:
type: object
title: Links
readOnly: true
description: URLs to alternative representations of the license.
properties:
self:
type: string
format: URL
readOnly: true
description: A link to the detail page for the license.
example:
data:
links:
self: https://api.osf.io/v2/licenses/563c1cf88c5e4a3877f9e968/
attributes:
text: 'Copyright (c) {{year}}, {{copyrightHolders}}
All rights reserved.
The full descriptive text of the License
'
required_fields:
- year
- copyrightHolders
name: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
type: licenses
id: 563c1cf88c5e4a3877f9e968
x-tagGroups:
- name: Welcome
tags:
- Introduction
- General Usage
- Authentication
- Pagination
- Versioning
- Filtering
- Sparse Fieldsets
- Embedding
- Request Formatting
- Errors & Error Codes
- Entities & Entity Collections
- name: API Reference
tags:
- Actions
- Addons
- Applications
- Base
- CEDAR Metadata
- Citations
- Comments
- Collections
- Collection Submissions
- Collection Submissions Actions
- Collection Providers
- Custom Metadata
- Files
- Licenses
- Logs
- Institutions
- Identifiers
- Registration Schemas
- Registration Schema Blocks
- Schema Responses
- Schema Response Actions
- Nodes
- Notification Subscriptions
- Preprints
- Preprint Providers
- Draft Registrations
- Registrations
- Registration Providers
- Regions
- OAuth Scopes
- Taxonomies
- Tokens
- Users
- View Only Links
- Wikis
- Subjects
- GUIDs
- Requests
- Resources