Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>]

Ah, right; ccPublisher doesn't play well with a proxy at this point. 
Sorry, I didn't even think about that.

The username and password you provide in the "Log in to the Archive"
does need to be an Internet Archive account.

I guess I'm not completely familiar with what an ePrint is; is that a
PDF file [just the first couple Google hits look like that]? 

At this stage ccPublisher will not embed license information in many
document types; it attaches licenses by uploading license metadata,
author information and the file itself to the Internet Archive for
hosting.  You can link to the file at IA and essentially get free
bandwidth, but you can't do things like restrict who has access to it. 
If you don't want to send your file to the Internet Archive to be made
available to the world, ccPublisher isn't the tool for you.

Does that help clear things up?  If not, let me know and I'll do what I
can to help.

Nathan R. Yergler
Software Engineer
Creative Commons



Mary M wrote:
> Dear Nathan,
>
> Thank you very much for your reply.
>
> For the connection error...we just figured out that's the proxy
> problem and so we have fixed it and the "Choose A License" works...But
> still got the errors from "Uploading..." (please see the attached)...
>
> About the error report, I did submit it by following the error
> message...not sure if that cause duplicated reports sent to you?
>
> From your email below, I guess that's the IA account problem? - In the
> "Log in to the Archive" window, should that be an IA account?
>
> What I want, at this stage, is to see how a CCL can be attached to an
> article and put it onto an ePrint archive, e.g., my Organization's
> ePrints...please give your advice on doing this. Thanks
>
> Regards
>
> Mary
>
>
>     Sorry I didn't get a chance to look at the word document you sent
>     until
>     just now.  The error you saw indicates that something internally has
>     gone wrong.  I assume you clicked OK to send an error report and not
>     cancel.  If I'm assuming wrong, disregard the rest of this and go
>     try it
>     again and click OK.
>
>     So the only error I see two of from yesterday are authentication
>     errors.  These indicate that the Internet Archive rejected your
>     login/password.  So couple of questions.  First, did you submit the
>     error report more than once?  Just want to make sure we're
>     tracking down
>     the correct problem.  If you have the URL that the program should have
>     given you after you clicked OK, that's even better.  Second, do
>     you have
>     an IA account set up?  If so, what's the username?  If not, go get one
>     (http://archive.org) and try it again.
>
>     This particular error is the case of the program not catching the
>     error
>     that the archive is sending back.
>
>     Finally, you say you want to get a CC license -- you do know that
>     ccPublisher is for uploading your work to the Internet Archive for
>     hosting, right?  If you just want a license, you can get the
>     necessary
>     bits from the website at http://creativecommons.org/license.  Just
>     want
>     to be sure the outcome is what you expect :).
>
>     Nathan R. Yergler
>     Software Engineer
>     Creative Commons
>
>
>
>
>     Mary M wrote:
>     > Dear Nathan,
>     >
>     > We have tried this software on different PCs using different
>     > connections to the Internet (organization's net or ADSL at
>     home). We
>     > all got the same error message. The version we have tried is
>     > CcPublisher_2_Beta_2
>     > <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher_2_Beta_2
>     <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher_2_Beta_2>>.
>     >
>     > We hope to get CCLs for ePrints. Any idea/suggestions/advice
>     would be
>     > much appreciated.
>     >
>     > Regards
>     >
>     > Mary
>     >
>     > On 3/28/06, *Mary M* < kr.melbourne AT gmail.com
>     <mailto:kr.melbourne AT gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:kr.melbourne AT gmail.com <mailto:kr.melbourne AT gmail.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     Dear Nathan,
>     >
>     >     I got that message ("unable to connect to the Internet to
>     retrieve
>     >     license informatioin. Check your connection and try again"),
>     >     sometimes after I started the program, sometimes after entering
>     >     "Tell Us About Your Files" or next step - when I was able to
>     get
>     >     to the "Choose A License", the dropdownlist "license class" is
>     >     empty - I cannot see any items from that. And if I keep going
>     >     until "Uploading", I will an "unknown error", saying that
>     >     "ccPublisher has encountered an error" - please see the
>     >     attachment. Thanks.
>     >
>     >     Regards
>     >
>     >     Mary
>     >
>     >
>     >     On 3/28/06, * Nathan R. Yergler* < nathan AT yergler.net
>     <mailto:nathan AT yergler.net>
>     >     <mailto:nathan AT yergler.net <mailto:nathan AT yergler.net>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >         Can you be a little more specific in how Beta 2 didn't
>     >         work?  Did it
>     >         prompt you to submit a crash report, or just not work at
>     all?
>     >
>     >         Mary M wrote:
>     >         > Dear Nathan,
>     >         >
>     >         > Thank you for your reply.
>     >         >
>     >         > Yes, I was connected to the internet when I ran the
>     program. I
>     >         > downloaded Beta 2 (from the web site you mentioned
>     below), it
>     >         didn't
>     >         > work. Then I tried Beta 1, I got the same error messge.
>     >         >
>     >         > Any idea?
>     >         >
>     >         > Thanks for helping.
>     >         >
>     >         > Regards
>     >         >
>     >         > Mary
>     >         >
>     >         > On 3/28/06, *Nathan R. Yergler* < nathan AT yergler.net
>     <mailto:nathan AT yergler.net>
>     >         <mailto:nathan AT yergler.net <mailto:nathan AT yergler.net>>
>     >         > <mailto: nathan AT yergler.net
>     <mailto:nathan AT yergler.net> <mailto:nathan AT yergler.net
>     <mailto:nathan AT yergler.net>>>> wrote:
>     >         >
>     >         >     That usually (always) means that for some reason
>     >         ccPublisher can not
>     >         >     connect to the Creative Commons web services to
>     retrieve
>     >         >     information on
>     >         >     the available licenses.  Were you connected to the
>     >         Internet when
>     >         >     you ran
>     >         >     the program?  What version did you download?  I highly
>     >         recommend
>     >         >     you try
>     >         >     the latest beta of ccPublisher 2 -- we've made
>     lots of
>     >         fixes to the
>     >         >     application.  You can find information on the beta at
>     >         >    
>     http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher_2_Beta_2
>     <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher_2_Beta_2>
>     >         >     <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher_2_Beta_2
>     >         < http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher_2_Beta_2>>
>     >         >
>     >         >     Nathan R. Yergler
>     >         >     Software Engineer
>     >         >     Creative Commons
>     >         >
>     >         >
>     >         >     Mary M wrote:
>     >         >     > Dear All,
>     >         >     >
>     >         >     > I downloaded the ccPublisher and installed. The
>     >         installation went ok
>     >         >     > but when I run it, I got the error message:
>     >         >     >
>     >         >     > "unable to connect to the Internet to retrieve
>     license
>     >         informatioin.
>     >         >     > Check your connection and try again"
>     >         >     >
>     >         >     > Anyone knows what's wrong with this?
>     >         >     >
>     >         >     > Thank you very much in advance.
>     >         >     >
>     >         >     > Regards
>     >         >     >
>     >         >     > Mary
>     >         >     >
>     >         >
>     >        
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