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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>
  • To: Dan Mills <dan AT creativecommons.org>
  • Cc: "cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org h" <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] License Chooser: partner url method vs REST API vs Licensechooser.js
  • Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:50:52 -0700

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Dan Mills <dan AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
> Chiming into this a bit late... but I don't think there's good reason
> to call out to a CC API for the WP plugin. Licenses change very
> infrequently, there is no reason to introduce a dynamic call of any
> kind at runtime just to populate the license options.

FWIW, I totally agree with Dan.

Probably if I were doing it I'd list the pertinent licenses (I guess
7; CC0 and 6 4.0 licenses) and have an option to enter the URL and
title of another license if user wants something other than those. As
far as metadata, anything other than annotating the license link with
rel="license" is not worth it, unless you're also planning to
integrate with the WordPress media manager, which would be a bigger
job. This, or even fewer features, works for almost every major CC
integration.

The partner interface still works fairly well if you really want a Q&A
style "chooser". It, and the a bit later the CC API, were developed
when CC might've been developing a lot of different licenses (in a way
it did via porting of course...), making more navigation than a list
conceivably useful. The CC API was developed when it still seemed
non-web clients were important. May or may not have been a good choice
then, but certainly not now.

Yet another option that may not have been mentioned here is
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LicenseChooser.js which seems to be
used by yet another old CC WordPress thing.

Mike




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