Licenses and Permits

[pudo]

FtM has a License schema, which is used to model extractive mining rights in some cases. However, the more use case for the term License is for a company or individual to have a permit to engage in some form of regulated activity: banking, selling alcohol, driving a taxi, even driving more generally.

In some ways, the extractives thing is just a particularly weird example of this. But the initial case of mining has lead us to design a schema that's not well suited to model the more normal cases. I'd like to propose a change to the License schema to make it more re-usable. It could be:

• an Interval
• linked to a LegalEntity, it's holder
• allow for a type, a resource and a licenseNo

I don't think there's a lot of licenses actually in use in Aleph right now. If that's not true, maybe we can introduce a new Permit schema instead and mark License as deprecated.