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  • From: Scott Shawcroft <scott.shawcroft AT gmail.com>
  • To: Peter Miller <millerp AT canb.auug.org.au>
  • Cc: creative commons developers <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] liblicense API - function names
  • Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:31:38 -0700

Peter,
Makes sense to me. I had never thought of it that way. Thanks for all
your hard work.
~Scott

Peter Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have finished up first pass of adding Doxygen comments to the
> functions in the liblicense.h file, and I've moed on to documenting
> *how* to actually use the library, for simple use cases like
>
> - how to obtain the license attached to a file
> - how to display the attributes of a license
>
> real beginner stuff. I'll have a commit in a couple of hours.
>
>
> But I've noticed an inconsistency, a big one. The module functions have
> "module" in them, and the jurisdiction functions have "jurisdiction" in
> them, etc. But the license functions don't have "license" in them.
>
> For example, ll_verify_uri is used to confirm that its argument is a
> valid license URI. But attributes are also URIs, so going by this
> function name it would be reasonable to expect that you could pass an
> attribute URI to ll_verify_uri. I would like to suggest adding the word
> "license" to license specific functions.
>
> (We could keep the old names as well, but add the gcc "deprecated"
> attribute, to encourage use of the new names.)
>
> What do folks think?
>
> Regards
> Peter Miller <millerp AT canb.auug.org.au>
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