[cc-devel] Gsoc idea :liblicence for URLs and plugin for embedding licences in media files in Django
amit sethi
amit.pureenergy at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 15:11:17 EDT 2009
Hi , I have submitted a first draft proposal . Looking forward to your
comments.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Nathan Yergler <nathan at creativecommons.org
> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:06 AM, amit sethi <amit.pureenergy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>use existing recommendations like ccREL/RDFa to specify and detect the
> >>>license information. If you're looking at an image on its own, XMP
> >>>already allows you to specify the license in an object so using that
> >>>existing standard is my preference.
> > Actually i now think this is a better idea at least for media. Sorry for
> > being ill informed .Also i hope i was not condescending . I was just
> excited
> > about the idea . >>there are use cases that an
> >>>HTTP header would address that existing approaches don't, we can talk
> >>>about it (although I'll warn you that I'm going to be super
> >>>skeptical).
> > well i think this could be a great help to bloggers.This way not only the
> > media content but the textual content they produce can also be licensed
> > under creative common .
>
> Are you saying that the HTTP header would let bloggers license their
> text as well as their images, video, etc? RDFa lets us do this
> already. I admit it's very possible I'm missing something as I'm a
> little sleep deprived at the moment :).
>
> >>>An F-Spot licensing plugin generally (that presumably used
> >>>liblicense?) would be fantastic and a perfect SoC project.
> > That is great although i wish to take a day or two to research this
> project
> > before submitting a proposal .I am interested on how F-spot handles
> metadata
> > .
>
> Great.
>
> > Especially if do add such a plugin how F-spot is going to handle writing
> it
> > to flickr when it uploads such an image to flickr etc ... It can import
> xmp
> > tags on an image.
>
> I think the following are interesting features for an F-Spot plugin:
>
> * select a license for your photos, individually as well as a default
> * allow filtering the view by photos of a particular license (or
> property, ie, "allows remixing")
> * when uploading to Flickr, use the Flickr API to set the
> corresponding license (this may be a patch to the existing Flickr
> plugin)
> * if possible, do the same for Picasa (no idea if their API supports that)
> * embed XMP on export, possibly controlled by a flag (ie, "export with
> XMP")
>
> > If you could recommend some reading for research for the project proposal
> it
> > would be .
>
> I think the places to start are with F-Spot and Mono documentation.
> You could conceivably leave all the XMP stuff to liblicense, but we'll
> need to make Mono/C# bindings. I think this would be a great project
> and fill a big gap in the CC+FLOSS desktop tools story. Looking
> forward to your proposal.
>
> Nathan
>
>
> >>>Yeah, I'm not 100% certain about how oembed works... I think it
> >>>typically gets consumed and transformed into HTML for embedding.
> >>>Better (license aware) oembed consumers would be useful. Of course
> > yes , you are right again it does get consumed. I think XMP is again a
> > better solution .
> >
> >
>
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