[cc-community] License Deed Icons
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Wed Mar 12 22:12:01 EDT 2008
Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> I strongly suspect we'd agree to allow someone like FD.o (but not joe
> random) to use the tm. Actually there's long been at least the idea
> that organizations publishing similar licenses would use the same
> human/machine/lawyer-readable architecture as CC, and presumably to
> make maximum use of the human portion of that, such should use the
> existing icons.
Okay. Well I'll take that as an indication that it's worth the risk to
develop extensions based on the CC theme, rather than starting from scratch.
> See http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5709 for
> one sketch of that idea (of course the FDL would be somewhat
> different, so don't try to apply the sketch literally).
As interesting as the FDL is, I actually am more interested in some
other licenses that ought to be listed.
> Another option would be for CC to host a deed and metadata for the FDL
> a la http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/ -- I personally
> would not mind doing that.
Well, that might be fine for FDL, but I think Benjamin Mako's point was
that a larger range of licenses might be handled via freedomdefined. One
cool thing is that the deeds might be created in the wiki, which might
make things simpler.
> Yes, we should be providing the same for the *GPLv3. For that (and
> even moreso, the FDL), the hard part is really figuring out how to
> summarize the license in a concise "CC deed" like format and what
> ought to be represented in metadata, and that would be the case
> wherever these would be hosted.
As I posted in another branch of this thread, I think you have to
acknowledge that the deed is imprecise. Some of this stuff will just
have to be a "caveat: read the license for details". The idea is to
cover the basics.
> I'd be happy to give (non-lawyer) feedback on such deed language and
> metadata regardless of hosting, but don't have the bandwidth to lead
> it right now.
Okay.
I was just going to do a little graphics work on this to support such a
project, and I wanted to decide whether I should start with CC's SVG or
create from scratch.
Cheers,
Terry
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