Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT creativecommons.org>]

I'm happy to announce liblicense 0.5.  Summary: Now this is worth 
using.

This release features a huge amount of great work by:

Contributors: Hubert Figuiere <hub AT figuiere.net>
              Nathan Yergler <nathan AT creativecommons.org>
              Peter Miller <millerp AT canb.auug.org.au>
              Scott Shawcroft <scott.shawcroft AT gmail.com>
              Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>

Most important things about this release:

* Uses SONAME versioning and provides an ABI guarantee - if you link to 
liblicense.so.1 from here on out, you'll get back an ABI-compatible 
library even if has code updates.

* Fixes many, many segfaults!  (It used to segfault if you asked it to 
read (for example) a corrupt JPEG.)

* RDF for licenses has been dramatically cleaned up by CC CTO Nathan 
Yergler.

* Adds module shutdown function.

* More flexible API - fewer helper functions, more generic functions.

* We're (fairly) careful about only exporting ll_* symbols.

* Mostly C89 compliant, particularly by not relying on variable-sized 
array feature of C99.

* Support environment variables that override the plugin or license RDF 
paths for flexibility in strange deployment scenarios.

You can download it from SourceForge: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80503&package_id=238700&release_id=568827 
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-- Asheesh.

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