Software with this license

Hi David.

Is there a specific use-case that you have in mind that cannot be satisfied by simply querying for software with a specific license as opposed to 'for license X give me all software'. I am not averse to adding the property, however I would like to understand what we would gain by this additional property that cannot be provided by the existing schema.

AM

Aseem,

I don't see that this would add any extra functionality in terms of MQL queries, but rather provide additional useful information when viewing topic pages of software licenses with the freebase client.

I see this as being similar to types such as "Computing Platform" which display a list of file formats that the platform supports (e.g. on the "Microsoft Windows" topic page). This reciprocal property is not strictly needed as the information can still be found by issuing an MQL query, but makes finding the information a little easier.

However, I'm still a little new here, so feel free to point out any reasons why you feel this property would not be useful that I may have missed.

David

Bumping this old thread up.

I'm tending to agree with David here that it would be nice for the client to display the pieces of software which use each license. It's just a matter of reciprocating the existing /computer/software/license property. As with any other reverse property, it doesn't really add any new functionality, but it makes things a bit easier in some cases.

Any other views?