Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:12 -0700, Nathan Yergler wrote:
> I've completed reworking the gen_licenses.py script for liblicense and
> have committed updated versions of the RDF to the repository in the
> nyergler-rdf-sanity branch.  I'd like to thank Scott and Jason for
> their work this summer that made this possible.  

Here here!...heya guys, please take a look...once a cc'r, always a cc'r
(that is short for commoner ;)

> Going through their
> script actually revealed a couple of painful bugs in my own code, and
> I feel much better about the entire endeavor having re-worked things.

Cool...

> So a couple of additional changes were made:
> 
> * There's now a cc:legalcode assertion that explicitly points to the
> legalcode URI for each license
> * Deprecated licenses have a cc:deprectedOn assertion to state when
> they were deprecated; this is an XSD:Date formatted value
> * Ported licenses have a cc:jurisdiction assertion; this is a URI
> pointing someplace a parser could (theoretically) retrieve additional
> information about the jurisdiction
> * dc:creator is now specified as a URI; again, the hope is that
> additional metadata could be specified @ that URI.
> * dc:publisher has been omitted.
> 
> A bit more about that final item: after discussing things with people
> here at CC, we came to the conclusion that dc:publisher was pretty
> vague and probably not all that useful at this point.  When you think
> about it, it's meta-metadata (metadata about the RDF itself, not the
> license), so I'm proposing we remove it.  This also implies we remove
> the associated API from liblicense.
> 
> I'd like to hear feedback on this final item in particular.
> Objections?  Is it being used in a way I'm not aware of?  Any
> feedback, etc welcome.

Scott? Jason? Pmiller? Unfortunately I have not been following as
closely as I'd like...but your suggestions make sense...Viva la
commiters!

Jon

> Thanks.
> 
> Nathan
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