[cc-devel] Using metadata files from CC's SVN
Jim Eng
jimeng at umich.edu
Fri Feb 27 09:45:40 EST 2009
Hi Nathan and Greg,
This is a followup on some earlier messages. I want to use
information from the file I found at this location:
http://code.creativecommons.org/svnroot/license_xsl/trunk/questions.xml
This contains the set of questions used in a license chooser. I would
like to find this file (or a derivative containing all the same
information in another form such as RDF) in a release package or tag
rather than in SVN trunk. That would help us keep it up to date as
new translations are added or corrections are made.
I have a copy of that file in our SVN in a branch that is not yet on
track to be included in a release of our code, but I would like to
move it into trunk within the next few weeks. My hope is that I can
add a readme file to the directory containing that file and include
information about the source of that file and any conditions for its
use. An alternative would be to embed that information in the file
itself in comments. I suspect the terms would vary depending on
whether I get the file from a released Creative Commons product or
from your SVN. Can you advise me on that?
I would also like to include the RDF for CC licenses in a future
release. I am getting these from the licenses directory of
liblicense-0.8.1 retrieved from a mirror of:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cctools/liblicense-0.8.1.tar.gz
My plan would be to update that set of licenses as you make new
versions available. Again I'd appreciate advice about any problems
that might arise.
As we discussed in earlier emails, it would be really cool if the CC
metadata resources mentioned above were released as a package separate
from your software releases but until that happens, I am hoping to
work out a way that I can reuse these items and keep them up to date.
Thanks.
Jim
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