Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>]

> Aha, more details wrt to the Journal in OLPC, where cc licensing
> happens...openoffice.org opendocument format is what OLPC will use as
> default. How's our liblicense support for that format?
>   
Support for writing licenses into opendocument files involves extending
the format's metadata description itself to include licenses. 
Opendocument's metadata description doesn't natively include a field for
licenses.

Opendocument does support four user-defined fields, but I don't think
it's a good idea to encourage using that to store licenses.  It makes
migration to the long-term solution of using an extended odt metadata
descritpion all the more difficult.

Basically, before liblicense can support opendocument, we need a
specification.  I've seen some news on a specification, but I don't know
what the progress or timeline is.

Cheers,
Jason
> Jon
>
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>   
>> From: Martin Sevior <msevior AT physics.unimelb.edu.au>
>> Reply-To: msevior AT physics.unimelb.edu.au
>> To: Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo AT gmail.com>
>> Cc: sugar AT lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: Re: [sugar] First impressions of a B4 machine
>> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:31:03 +1000
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 06:29 +0100, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello Sugar and Devel lists,
>>>       
>>> Next is AbiWord.  Why was it not stripped of support for most file
>>> formats? 
>>>       
>> Once the integration with the journal is complete, the users will be not
>> normally be asked anything about filename or fileformat. The default
>> format written to the journal is currently *.odt
>>
>> Nevertheless Write will continue to be able to read *.doc,*rtf and *.abw
>> files, since the former are extremely common about the internet and the
>> latter is built into the program, is a trivial amount of code , is
>> required for the AbiCollab document collaboration and guarantees loss
>> less saving/loading for non-typical use cases.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>  
>>     
>>> Thank you for your attention,
>>> Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves,
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