Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jim Eng <jimeng AT umich.edu>]

Hi Nathan and Greg,

This is a followup on some earlier messages.  I want to use  
information from the file I found at this location:

http://code.creativecommons.org/svnroot/license_xsl/trunk/questions.xml

This contains the set of questions used in a license chooser.  I would  
like to find this file (or a derivative containing all the same  
information in another form such as RDF) in a release package or tag  
rather than in SVN trunk.  That would help us keep it up to date as  
new translations are added or corrections are made.

I have a copy of that file in our SVN in a branch that is not yet on  
track to be included in a release of our code, but I would like to  
move it into trunk within the next few weeks.  My hope is that I can  
add a readme file to the directory containing that file and include  
information about the source of that file and any conditions for its  
use. An alternative would be to embed that information in the file  
itself in comments.  I suspect the terms would vary depending on  
whether I get the file from a released Creative Commons product or  
from your SVN.  Can you advise me on that?

I would also like to include the RDF for CC licenses in a future  
release.  I am getting these from the licenses directory of  
liblicense-0.8.1 retrieved from a mirror of:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cctools/liblicense-0.8.1.tar.gz

My plan would be to update that set of licenses as you make new  
versions available. Again I'd appreciate advice about any problems  
that might arise.

As we discussed in earlier emails, it would be really cool if the CC  
metadata resources mentioned above were released as a package separate  
from your software releases but until that happens, I am hoping to  
work out a way that I can reuse these items and keep them up to date.

Thanks.

Jim