Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 07:31 -0700, Scott Shawcroft wrote:
> Peter,
> Makes sense to me.  I had never thought of it that way.  Thanks for all
> your hard work.
> ~Scott

This sounds like a good change Peter...

Jon

> Peter Miller wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have finished up first pass of adding Doxygen comments to the
> > functions in the liblicense.h file, and I've moed on to documenting
> > *how* to actually use the library, for simple use cases like
> >
> > - how to obtain the license attached to a file
> > - how to display the attributes of a license
> >
> > real beginner stuff.  I'll have a commit in a couple of hours.
> >
> >
> > But I've noticed an inconsistency, a big one.  The module functions have
> > "module" in them, and the jurisdiction functions have "jurisdiction" in
> > them, etc.  But the license functions don't have "license" in them.
> >
> > For example, ll_verify_uri is used to confirm that its argument is a
> > valid license URI.  But attributes are also URIs, so going by this
> > function name it would be reasonable to expect that you could pass an
> > attribute URI to ll_verify_uri.  I would like to suggest adding the word
> > "license" to license specific functions.
> >
> > (We could keep the old names as well, but add the gcc "deprecated"
> > attribute, to encourage use of the new names.) 
> >
> > What do folks think?
> >
> > Regards
> > Peter Miller <millerp AT canb.auug.org.au>
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