[cc-community] for those who want "free only" buttons
Benj. Mako Hill
mako at atdot.cc
Wed Feb 14 21:11:06 EST 2007
<quote who="Mike Linksvayer" date="Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:04:27PM +0000">
> All I can say for certain is that both Google and Yahoo! can deal with
> links directly to CC license deeds qualified with rel="license".
Great. That's good to know.
> Regarding what you encourage others to do, it looks like you're
> currently providing buttons without any recommended usage.
Oh. We say, "these are just first drafts of how such buttons could
look," which I thought implied that they weren't really ready to be used
since they are not finished yet.
> This is probably not a good thing as someone could take the button
> without linking directly to the CC license deed or e.g.,
> http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/CC-BY-SA-2.5 (hmmm, that doesn't
> exist), which means one can't tell which license they are actually
> using (no version specified, which can be very important).
None of them exist yet. We're currently soliciting buttons from people
who are more artistic than the current group of moderators.
> Whatever use you do recommend should include a link to the relevant CC
> license deed.
Absolutely. I'll walk away from this conversation with that.
> BTW it is not clear to me whether you consider jurisdiction ports of
> BY and BY-SA free -- I do see "national adaptions" at
> http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses#The_grid -- but if this is the case
> then a) you really need to facilitate people linking to the relevant
> CC license deed or create a whole lot of URLs on freedomdefined.org.
Yes. Thanks for pointing this out. We'll make sure this is handled.
> If I were you I would encourage people to use the standard CC
> buttons/link and a free button that could be placed alongside the CC
> license button and would link to something like
> http://freedomdefined.org/check
>
> The code at that URL would scrape the referrer. If content at the
> referrer includes a link to an approved license, the user gets a page
> explaining why the license is free, if not they get warned of a bogus
> usage of the free button and encouraged to use a really free license.
That's a nice idea for a tool. The moderators of the Free Cultural
Works Definition will need to discuss what it is that we will actualy
recommend and what we offer.
Regards,
Mako
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