Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT creativecommons.org>]

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.

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