Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Nathan Yergler <nathan AT yergler.net>]

Hi Alex,

I don't believe any of the APIs support what you're looking for. Your
best bet may be to grab the RDF files that CC uses to describe the
licenses, and use those for your information. Every license CC has
issued (including deprecated ones) will be in there, and you can get
the URI, name, and description from them. I'm not sure which PNG image
you're referring to, maybe the icon for the license? I can't recall if
that's in the RDF or not. I believe the license.rdf repository on
http://code.creativecommons.org/ has all of these files.

Hope that helps.

NRY


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Thomas, Alexander <athom09 AT emory.edu> wrote:
> I am building a feature on a website that will allow users to specify a
> license with their work.
> I need to be able to query all avaliable license info including Name, URI,
> Description and PNG image.  This also needs to include older versions of the
> license.
> I have looked at the javascript chooser
> (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Integration) and the rest api
> (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Services).
> However these appear to only return current versions of the license (3.0)
> and I don't see a way to query all the license in either tool. They both
> seems to be geared toward choosing options.
>
> Any assistence in this matter would be of great help!
>
> Thank you
> Alex
>
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