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  • From: Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>
  • To: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT creativecommons.org>
  • Cc: CC Developer Mailing List <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] liblicense [creative commons work]
  • Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:47:19 -0700


>>
>> That particular interface is tuned for content licenses (not source code
>> licenses). Do you have any recommendations on making it work for all
>> types of licenses? liblicense can list all available licenses, and when
>> one is selected, liblicense can provide more information on that
>> license.
>
> One idea is to have a selector for the type of work as a radio button
> or drop-down right at the top. The liblicense API could let the
> library user specify which sort of license to offer by default, and/or
> if to offer the choice at all (then KDevelop could use liblicense and
> only show code licenses and not let users select CC by-nc-sa).

Possible, yes... I just want to point out that we'd first have to extend
the API and license RDF to specify "classes" of licenses. That way
liblicense knows which license is which class (content, source code,
documentation, etc.).

Cheers,
Jason





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