[cc-metadata] linking to a license with html

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Wed Feb 22 17:37:13 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 20:06 +0100, Siegfried Gipp wrote:
> Hi,
> i just read the article about how to markup links so point to a license. 
> Sugestion was <link rel="license" .../> resp. <a rel="license" ...>...</a>.
> 
> I then read that this would only make a statement about the resource beeing 
> linked to, but no statement about the resource this link is residing. This is 
> correct, but no problem: Besides the "rel" attribute there also is the "rev" 
> attribute you could use. So <link rel="license" rev="????" .../> would do the 
> trick to make a statement that the license, where this link points to, is 
> indeed a license for this resource.
> 
> Unfortunately my english is not that good to find the proper word to use here. 
> I know that the link target is a "license", but i do not know how to name the 
> reverse. So if any native english speaker would know the right word...

See
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2005-rdfa-primer#id0x0d0980d0

So <a about="{subject url}" rel="license" href="{license url}">...</a>

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