Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT creativecommons.org>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote:

> A few comments and questions:
>
> - liblicense-0.8.1 gives a link error for me, though configure
>  went through all fine:
>    ../liblicense/.libs/liblicense.so: undefined reference to `dlsym'
>    ../liblicense/.libs/liblicense.so: undefined reference to `dlerror'
>    ../liblicense/.libs/liblicense.so: undefined reference to `dlopen'
>    ../liblicense/.libs/liblicense.so: undefined reference to `dlclose'
>  A -ldl is missing in utils/Makefile.am

Thanks. I just committed and pushed a probable fix. Does that do it for 
you?

> - Why is the "licenses" folder empty in the liblicense git repo?
>  This makes autoconf fail from ./autogen.sh
>
> - The "Developers: Using git" [3] section lists the command
>    git submodule init
>    git submodule update
>  I think the page should explain why that is needed.

These two issues are related; doing the "git submodule init ; git 
submodule update" fills out the licenses directory. (It's like 
svn:externals.) Once you see what I mean, would you be willing to improve 
the wiki page to explain this?

> - Whom could I team up with when creating an I/O module
>  for XSPF [2] files?

What does your [2] refer to?

Regardless, I'd be the person to talk to, but hopefully you can do a lot 
of the work!

> - The link "Library Documentation (generated from source)"
>    http://labs.creativecommons.org/~nathan/liblicense
>  on the liblicense page is dead

Thanks - we should fix that. I've created a ticket for us to track this: 
http://code.creativecommons.org/issues/issue167

> - How can I get emblems auto-detected emblems like this?:
>    http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Image:Ll_nautilus_emblem.png
>  It seems installing liblicense-0.8.1 is not enough?

Yeah - it relates to a module called liblicense-gnome that we've been 
doing a poor job of maintaining due to really spread-out developer 
resources. It lives in svn at 
http://code.creativecommons.org/svnroot/liblicense-gnome/.

> Would be great if you have a minute for me.

Your move. (-:

-- Asheesh.

You have been selected for a secret mission.