Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>]

Hi all, I wanted to resuscitate these discussions. I've added Aaron from
KDE and Greg from CC to this. 

Asheesh is now maintaining liblicense and the entire project has
received love from Asheesh, Nathan, and Steren (more recently) from CC.

Peter and Rafael, how can liblicense get integrated into upcoming KDE
release? Aaron made some recommendations, but I wanted to make sure
thigns were synced with you guys since you put forward much interest in
the past on this.

Lets talk!

Cheers to you all!

Jon

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:55 -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Jason Kivlighn wrote:
> 
> > Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I am Rafael Fernández, a Dolphin developer, and talking in its name. I
> >> also CC'ed Peter Penz, who is the Dolphin maintainer.
> >>
> >> We didn't know liblicense since today somebody has told us at IRC.
> 
> Awesome.
> 
> >> We really think liblicense is a _great_ work, and we are studying of
> >> getting it into kdebase/kdelibs mainstream for KDE 4.1 probably.
> 
> Even more awesome.  Scott and Jason have done great work.
> 
> >> In theory with the current code is OK, but we need to discuss with our
> >> artists if they agree of having those icons, or on the other hand they
> >> prefer drawing others that are closer to Oxygen icon style. Probably
> >> small details about the code could be considered to be changed a bit
> >> before getting it mainstream.
> >>
> > Sounds good to me, as long as the icons follow the general look of the
> > existing ones.
> >
> > I'm free to discuss coding details of getting it mainstream.
> 
> Mainstream would rule.
> 
> We're talking about the KDE bindings, so having them live in KDE svn would 
> make sense to me, too.  I haven't touched them at all, and 
> modifications to them wouldn't impact "upstream" liblicense which 
> could continue to live in CC svn.
> 
> >> I have seen that the code is CC-GPL-LGPL licensed. That's great, but I
> >> have a question:
> 
> I thought it was purely LGPL licensed.
> 
> > With the summer coming to a close, I'm not going to be making regular
> > changes.  Soon it's back to school, for me.  Although at the moment, I'd
> > need more feedback to determine what improvements are needed.
> 
> As the CC staffer who's been voted "Most Likely to Take Over 
> liblicense", I think letting KDE folks (Jason included) focus on the KDE 
> stuff sounds great.
> 
> >> Please note that I'm not trying to move this code to KDE SVN. What we
> >> would like to know if there is a way of keeping synced with the copy
> >> at creativecommons SVN, or we just have to do periodic visits to see
> >> if something has changed on your repository.
> >>
> > I think it would be a good idea to move it to KDE SVN, if that makes
> > integration easier.  At the moment, I'm the only CC developer doing the
> > KDE work for liblicense, and I already have a KDE SVN account.  Moving
> > it to KDE wouldn't be any trouble (for me).
> 
> If push comes to shove, I'll ask for a KDE svn account.  I think it's best 
> to make the KDE portion live where it can be best-improved.
> 
> >> Really great work guys. liblicense is a really great work, thank you all.
> >>
> > Thanks you!
> 
> Aww, hugs and chocolate all around!
> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 
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