Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

cc-devel - Re: [cc-devel] liblicense [creative commons work]

cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>
  • To: Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org, asheesh AT creativecommons.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] liblicense [creative commons work]
  • Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:23:14 -0700

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 22:06 -0700, Jason Kivlighn wrote:
> >> It would be interesting as well having mimetype license resolving.
> >> With this I mean that the properties dialog should remove all
> >> selectable licenses for letting on the dialog only those that match
> >> those mimetypes.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, Jason, do you have any ideas on this?
> Technically I can think of various implementations... any would be
> fairly straightforward and simple. I won't spew any technical details now.
>
> I'm typically wary of anything that's done based on automatic mimetype
> detection. I feel like there always needs to be a fallback if the
> detection isn't right, the user wants to do something out of the
> ordinary, or if a user wants a specific license class (e.g. content
> licenses) for an unknown mimetype.
>
> I'm throwing out my thoughts. The details can be worked out closer to
> when someone is actually on implementation.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason

yes, I agree too...use the users...automatic license enforcement and
selection get into a gray zone...

Jon

--
Jon Phillips

San Francisco, CA
USA PH 510.499.0894
jon AT rejon.org
http://www.rejon.org

MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto
Jabber Chat: rejon AT gristle.org
IRC: rejon AT irc.freenode.net





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page