[RSS-DEV] Creative Commons RSS 1.0 module first draft

Ben Hammersley ben at benhammersley.com
Mon Aug 12 12:13:21 EDT 2002


Morten Frederiksen wrote:

> 
>>I've just uploaded mod_creativecommons to the RSS-DEV list's file
>>repository:
> 
> I'm a little confused by the scope of the license statement.
> In the syntax section's first paragraph, you state that:
> 
>  "An occurance of <cc:license> within any element implies the copyright of 
> the document contained with the rdf:about attribute of that element. So, in 
> the case of the <channel> element it is the feed itself, and not the document 
> pointed to by the <link> element."
> 
> But, your own feed has, as many feeds do, but in contrast to the example, a 
> URI for the HTML document as the content of the channel rdf:about attribute - 
> that is, the rdf:about attribute and the link element has the same URI, as is 
> recommend in the RSS 1.0 spec. The same applies for items and images.
> 

Indeed. Mea Culpa. That passage was utter bollocks. Excise it from your 
minds, gentle readers. It should read:

"As with any RDF elements, an occurance of <cc:license> within any 
element implies the copyright of the document contained with the 
rdf:about attribute of that parent element, and not the document pointed 
to by the <link> sub-element."

In other news, England have yet to beat India and the tension is getting 
to me. Other mistakes can be blamed on the Agakar's batting.




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