[cc-devel] Questions about getting the license_url

Nathan R. Yergler nathan at yergler.net
Thu Sep 1 07:22:18 EDT 2005


Hi Yanzer,

If you don't want to use the popup shown for web integration, take a  
look at our web services.  We just launched a new version that  
supports localization.  You can find information at http:// 
api.creativecommons.org.  Basically you'll make a request and get  
back a chunk of XML that describes the questions you need to ask to  
generate a license.  Each question has an "id", so once you have the  
answers, you POST back an XML block, and the service sends you the  
results.  The results have the HTML, RDF, license name and license  
URI embedded.

The only thing the services don't currently support that the license  
engine does is the optional work information.  If this is important,  
you can fake it -- those use standard DC elements, so you can insert  
the Work block into the returned license RDF.

We really encourage partners to use this service because it allows us  
to centrally update available licenses, and your site/code "just works".

Let me know if you have any questions about using the services in  
your site.

Nathan R. Yergler
Software Engineer
Creative Commons

On Sep 1, 2005, at 2:44 AM, Yanzer wrote:

> Hi everyone.
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> I am developing the CC Portal for Malaysia. I have some questions  
> about the integration part.
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> For the first questions:
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> I had developed the simple license acquirement page here:
> http://www.fireworksmedia.com/~wip/cc/license-index.html
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> the source codes can be found here : http://www.fireworksmedia.com/ 
> ~wip/cc/ccmy-license-demo.zip
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> In the “Choose license” page : We mimicked the form in the CC.org  
> portal. This form will POST the     information such as license  
> characteristic and the information of the work ( title,  
> author..ect) to the result page.
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> the result page ( results.php) will then calculate based on the  
> postdata received on which license to     show – generally there  
> are 6 licenses.
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> then it will insert the data into the page and it becomes what you  
> see in the results page.
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> You can see that this is a simple form function that does the  
> trick, HOWEVER it doesn’t really uses the http:// 
> creativecommons.org/license/results-one engine ( or is it a  
> webservice ) on the main portal.
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> The limitation of this method is that we can’t choose the  
> Jurisdictions,  because for each country they have different  
> version on the license_url ( say brazil is … license/by-nd/2.0 and  
> its different for each country ). So this is my limitation.
>
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> SO THE REAL question is what is the best way to acquire the  
> license_url  without using the popup type that is taught on the web  
> integration bit on http://creativecommons.org/technology/web- 
> integration
> I don’t want to use this because it brings ppl out of our site,  
> then direct them to the main engine, then comes back to our site..  
> which seems to long of a process.
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> This is my lengthy question, does anyone have the solution? Please  
> reply me… and thanks in advance.
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> Regards,
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> Yanzer Lee
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> Multimedia Consultant
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> www.Fireworksmedia.com
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