[cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: Creative Commons Launches Web and Desktop License Integration Approach with LicenseChooser.js and liblicense Projects
Greg Grossmeier
greg at creativecommons.org
Wed Jul 23 22:48:10 EDT 2008
PDF attached; text below
CREATIVE COMMONS REFRESHES WEB AND DESKTOP LICENSE INTEGRATION APPROACH
WITH LICENSECHOOSER.JS AND LIBLICENSE PROJECTS
SAN FRANCISCO, USA JULY 24, 2008
Creative Commons announced today the release of liblicense and
LicenseChooser.js, content licensing tools which make integration of
Creative Commons license functionality easy for developers building
modern desktop and web applications. These tools enable reading and
writing Creative Commons licensing information to a variety of media
formats. Many projects already support the ability to read and write
content license information through add-ons, including OpenOffice.org,
Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office. Other programs, such as the
open source vector graphics drawing tool Inkscape, include a default
capability to read and write CC license information.
For the desktop, Creative Commons has updated the C language-based
software library called liblicense. This Free Software (licensed under
GNU LGPL) library provides functionality to read and write license
information into many supported media files. Along with access to
license information, the library offers a standard set of icons for
graphical representation of selected or discovered licenses. As Creative
Commons' international team refreshes the licenses or adds a new
jurisdiction, software developers can simply update liblicense to
receive these changes. Currently, liblicense is distributed with
development versions of the Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora Linux operating
systems. The LGPL license permits adding it to both open source and
proprietary software.
"LicenseChooser.js and liblicense will make open content licensing more
valuable for developers, publishers, and users, by making such content
more discoverable and manageable" said Mike Linksvayer, Vice President
of Creative Commons.
One prominent project incorporating the use of liblicense in an upcoming
release is One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). While the OLPC project wiki
already uses Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licenses for
contributions, Creative Commons has introduced licensing functionality
for the XO laptops through the development of liblicense and a series of
patches to be integrated. Once it is installed, it allows software
interfacing with media on the device to be content license aware. Also,
to explain Creative Commons licensing and the basics of copyright law,
Creative Commons has created an educational licensing activity that
anyone may install onto an OLPC XO laptop. This activity uses the
previously released "Sharing Creative Works" comics.
For web applications, Creative Commons has developed LicenseChooser.js,
which allows developers to add similar functionality into any web-based
project. Creative Commons already provided an XML-based web services
API. LicenseChooser.js provides an additional, lightweight method for
integrating license selection into web applications. The widget is used
by SixApart's TypePad as well as the WordPress plugin WpLicense.
Today, liblicense will be demonstrated at this year's Open Source
Conference (OSCON) in Portland, OR. Integration with two Open Source
applications will be showcased: the file viewer Eye of GNOME and media
player Rhythmbox. The presentation will be given by Nathan Yergler, CTO
of Creative Commons, and Asheesh Laroia, Software Engineer, on Thursday
July 24th in room F150.
Links
Desktop Integration Software: liblicense
http://creativecommons.org/projects/liblicense
OSCON "Rights on the Desktop with liblicense" Presentation
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2857
Web Integration Software: LicenseChooser.js
http://creativecommons.org/projects/LicenseChooser.js
OLPC Creative Commons Page
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creative_Commons
Creative Commons Sharing Creative Works Public Domain Released Comics
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Sharing_Creative_Works
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that
promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether
owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses,
Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the
choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon
the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a
voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built
with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including
the Center for the Public Domain, Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller
Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public.
For more information about Creative Commons, visit
http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Jon Phillips
Community and Business
Development Manager
Creative Commons
jon at creativecommons.org
+1.510.499.0894
Press Kit
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
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Greg Grossmeier
Community Development - Creative Commons
greg at creativecommons.org
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