CC LicenseLib - a .NET library for Creative Commons License Metadata
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Oct 27 12:10:40 EST 2003
admin at delegatetechnologies.com wrote:
> I just wanted to announce that I've done an initial release of a Visual
> Basic .NET class library called CCLicenseLib.
Hi Steve. This is great news, thanks!
> The library was initially
> ported from the PHP implementation that Blake Watters submitted and
> contains an object library that is useful when integrating Creative
> Commons Licenses into .NET applications. (you can see Blake's PHP
> implementation at: http://cclicense.sourceforge.net/ ) While much of the
> functionality is the same as a result of a direct port of the code, I
> added a few extra functions to the cc_license class that can assist in
> generating and reading XML files with embedded license information of a
> specific structure. The XML parsing
> routines are fairly basic and follow a specific format (See
> releasenotes.txt packaged with the project files), I would be interested
> in hearing suggestions for XML schemas as well as better ways to
> embed/parse license information into and from XML documents.
I just glanced at the source. It looks like you provide read and write
methods for a format like
<CCLicense Name="Attribution" ... NonCommercial="false"></CCLicense>
I urge you to just use RDF/XML for serializing the licenses in XML (the
one exception may be an expression of the licenses using a different
rights vocabulary for integration with a system that knows e.g., ODRL).
The RDF/XML serialization _is_ XML and may be embedded in any XML
document.
Just one other quick comment -- I see that you've got
.m_uri = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/"
.m_logo_uri = "http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights.gif"
.m_logo_link = "http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/"
The somerights/norights logos generally ought to link to a license
deed/PD dedication. I'd suggest eliminating the m_logo_link property,
as m_uri already has the correct link.
Thanks again,
Mike
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