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  • From: Nathan Yergler <nathan AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] License Selection Library for Java
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:27:12 -0700

Sounds great; please send links or the source along when you have a
"release" so we can update the wiki.

Thanks Maarten!

Nathan


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl> wrote:
> Great, thanks for the information!
> I am now writing a class that extents JPanel to do the license selection,
> the classes you mention would a good place to harvest best practice code on
> this.
> I hope to have it automatically add jurisdiction and license URI using the
> the API.
> The final product will be a class that extens JPanel that will do the
> license selection base upon API that should be easily integrated in other
> projects if people please.
> Cheers,
> Maarten Zeinstra
> Kennisland | Knowledgeland
>
> T: +31.20.575.6720 | E: mz AT kl.nl
> www.kennisland.nl | www.knowledgeland.org
>
> On Jul 27, 2010, at 23:53 , Nathan Yergler wrote:
>
> I think the idea with the OOo plugin was that we wanted it to work
> offline.  If that's not a requirement, the API is probably a better
> idea.  Note that you can get the list of jurisdiction codes from the
> API through the questions list
> (http://api.creativecommons.org/docs/readme_dev.html#license-class-locale-xx),
> so you don't need to maintain the list of jurisdictions yourself.
>
> We used to have a Java wrapper for the API
> (http://code.creativecommons.org/viewsvn/api_client/trunk/java/).  As
> you can see from the timestamps, it hasn't been touched in a few
> years.  That might be a reasonable starting point for you.
>
> NRY
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Yes I found the other versions a bit later in the day.
>
> i was wondering if I could bypass the store idea and have it render an API
>
> call like /license/standard/get?commercial=n&derivatives=n&jurisdiction=nl
>
> and stripping it to the URI of the license. That's the only thing I need.
>
> That way I only need to have list of jurisdictions up to date and have the
>
> API call do the rest. That would probably be a couple of hours worth of work
>
> or something for me.
>
> The only advantage I see in the store structure is keeping some parts easily
>
> maintainable and up to date, if you get those documents from the cc site
>
> itself.
>
> If you are considering making an html request per opened application, than I
>
> wonder if you need to have a debate on CPU's vs Bandwidth and what would
>
> cost more. sending all these stores around or creating a small package. that
>
> is send. I would think the latter is perhaps more efficient.
>
> What would you think?
>
> Maarten Zeinstra
>
> Kennisland | Knowledgeland
>
> T: +31.20.575.6720 | E: mz AT kl.nl
>
> www.kennisland.nl | www.knowledgeland.org
>
> On Jul 27, 2010, at 22:28 , Nathan Yergler wrote:
>
> Hi Maarten,
>
> We've moved active development off CC Tools sourceforge.net project
>
> onto our own servers at http://code.creativecommons.org.  The OOo
>
> plugin does have the most complete CC license selection code for Java.
>
> We have a Summer of Code student working on the plugin right now.
>
> You can find the license selection code in his branch at
>
> http://code.creativecommons.org/viewsvn/ccooo/branches/akila-gsoc-2010/src/org/creativecommons/license/.
>
> If you think this will be useful for you to use (or you have
>
> patches/features to contribute), we can split it out into its own
>
> module in Subversion.  I think the primary issue right now is probably
>
> startup speed, as it loads the RDF files from disk into the store;
>
> there are probably a couple of different ways to tackle optimizing
>
> that.
>
> Let me know if you have any other questions.
>
> Nathan
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I've been searching the cc sourceforge for the most recent Java Library to
>
> do CC license selection, wondering if I have to make my own library.
>
> I found ccooo, would that be the best available library to integrate a Java
>
> based license selection tool?
>
> Are there any known issues with that library? I couldn't find any using the
>
> issue tracker,  but maybe someone on list has different experiences with
>
> that library.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Maarten Zeinstra
>
> Kennisland | Knowledgeland
>
> T: +31.20.575.6720 | E: mz AT kl.nl
>
> www.kennisland.nl | www.knowledgeland.org
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