This module may be used as a helper module by maintainers of Drupal modules and themes to create an attribution block or an attribution page that can be used to display an aggregate of all license and attribution information about third party materials (such as code libraries, fonts, icons and images) that are included in a repository and need to be documented and/or publicly attributed.

The declarations concerning licenses and attributions are pulled from files named ASSETS.yml. The idea is that a repository containing 3rd party materials have all necessary documentation for attribution and/or exception granting purposes in a single machine-parseable file that is also human-readable.

The typical use case for this module is to assist a site-builder using a lot of non-code assets that are available under free/libre licenses that allow reuse, but require attribution (e.g. CC-BY) in collating and presenting these attributions as required by the licenses.

The format and the use of a special module to aggregate attributions was initially put forward by the LWG as the preferred way of documenting the presence of third party materials in a repo, and plans were made to create a "wizard" to automatically generate the ASSETS.yml-file from form based input and/or from scanning license files present in the repo. However, after some user testing, it was found that it was too complicated and hard to understand. The proposal was shelved and this project abandoned.

Requirements

Advanced help hint:
Will link to online help and advanced help (if available).
Composer Manager:
This module allows modules to depend on PHP libraries managed by Composer.

Demo module

The project also contains a demo module (Attributions Demo) that displays (bogus) attributions on a site. Testers may enable it to see how attributions are displayed. The screenshot on the right shows the attribution block output from this demo module. Note that the demo module is only included for demonstration and testing purposes, and does not have any use beyond that. You should not enable it on a production site. It may be removed from the repo at some point.

Roadmap

The project is abandoned.

Attributions

Issues

Automated Drupal Rector fixesClosed: outdatedCode Created over 4 years ago

Automated Drupal Rector fixes
Closed: outdated
Code
Created over 4 years ago