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["Geoff Groube" <ggroube AT bigpond.com>]

Hi folks!  I'm a Brisbane-based Software Engineer who has been looking into the cc initiative for a little while now, and I have a question for you which may not be relevant to the cc:au port, but I'm hoping you can clarify for me.

 

Forgive me in advance if this is off-topic, irrelevant, or just dumb.

 

I've been having a look at the CC tech challenges page (http://creativecommons.org/technology/challenges), and noticed a challenge to developers to create API's for cc license metadata.  This looks interesting - there are plenty of languages which could use some work in this area, and I'm keen to help. 

 

I take a look at the C# implementation (http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/cclib) and notice with some amuzement that the project is being distributed under the LGPL (interesting), and that the page this project is posted on has a Microsoft Copyright statement on it.  "Strange," I think.  "What terms do Microsoft put on something that has been LGPLed and is intended for use with the CC license?"  The Terms of Use page concerns me, particularly the clause under "NOTICE SPECIFIC TO SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.  Any software that is made available to download from the Services ("Software") is the copyrighted work of Microsoft, its suppliers and/or other registered users of the Services."

 

My concern is based around (what we in the software industry call) scope and order of precedence rules.  If I'm offering a work under a license, (say, any of the CC licenses), and it appears on a website carrying it's own copyright (with terms of use that are not consistent with the terms of my license), which license has precedence?

 

I'm having a "Holy **it" moment here, because I'm not sure how this works.

 

Geoff