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  • From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] In liblicense, why does Raptor support the old namespace?
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:35:24 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Jason Kivlighn wrote:

The only reason web.resource.org is in there is because Inkscape for a
long time produced SVG's that used this namespace. I decided in
liblicense to write the new namespace unless there was already license
metadata present and that license metadata used the old namespace. Most
likely that metadata was written by Inkscape and, so that it could
subsequently still be read by Inkscape, the namespace is left as
web.resource.org. Toward the end of the summer, my patch to have
Inkscape read and write the new namespace got committed to svn. So I'd
assume that most SVG's in the wild that have license metadata are using
the old namespace.

I know... supporting legacy standards is a pain, but I'm trying to avoid
confusion on the user end (at the expense of the developer end,
unfortunately).

"Sadly," that's what us developers are here for. (-:

Sounds good - thanks for the solid explanation.

NY and ML - maybe a year from now liblicense should migrate old-namespace metadata to the new namespace? Perhaps right now it should add a duplicate of the old metadata in the new namespace?

If there's no quick consensus, I'm willing to put that off until past 0.5.

-- Asheesh.

--
Twenty two thousand days.
Twenty two thousand days.
It's not a lot.
It's all you've got.
Twenty two thousand days.
-- Moody Blues, "Twenty Two Thousand Days"




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