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  • From: Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>, Jon Phillips <jon AT creativecommons.org>, CC Developer Mailing List <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [cc-devel] Fwd: Bug 447000 -- [id3demux] add support for reading license URL from WCOP tag
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:20:38 -0700

There's some discussion on reading license info in GStreamer, regarding CC's
usage of WCOP in id3 tags. I was hoping to have the WCOP tag recognized as a
license.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447000

The latest discussion:

*Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describeuser.cgi?login=t.i.m%40zen.co.uk>*

You're probably right about the encoding, I read to quickly there.

I'm still a bit undecided about what to do here. I don't think it's
technically
correct to map WCOP to GST_TAG_LICENSE, since the link might not link to a
license, and we also map TCOP to GST_TAG_COPYRIGHT, so IMHO we should map WCOP
also to GST_TAG_COPYRIGHT or introduce a new GST_TAG_COPYRIGHT_URI or so.

The W... frames seem rather useless and ill-specified as a whole, I wish
creative-commons had just decided to go for custom frames (TXXX and WXXX). But
since they've adopted the ill-specified ID3 scheme, there isn't much we can do
about that now, I guess.

What we could do (in addition to the above or in stead of the above) is to add
a helper function or two to libgsttag to recognise a set of white-listed
well-known license URIs and then set the GST_TAG_LICENSE* if we find one of
those. Not very elegant though.

Comments?




  • [cc-devel] Fwd: Bug 447000 -- [id3demux] add support for reading license URL from WCOP tag, Jason Kivlighn, 06/19/2007

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