Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Martyn <martyne AT orange.net>]

Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 10:29 +0000, Martyn wrote:
>   
> > I'm building an open source sign designer (released under LGPL).
> > http://csdm.sourceforge.net
> >
> > And I would like to include in the package some fonts and some images
> > (in SVG).
> >
> > Now to me I think i can use works licenced under some of the CC licences
> > but I'd like your opions as basically the project is open but the final
> > useage is going to be by commercial entities.
> >
> > Now I think I can parse the CC metadata out of the RDF block and show
> > the end user the author information etc. of any font or image they look,
> > and put the inforamtion on the final order email as well.  But there is
> > no way I would be able to put an attribution on the sign that finally
> > gets produced.
> >     
>
> For attribution could you include a "union label" size notice on signs?
>   
I'm afraid I'm English and i don't know what you mean by that.
> Presumably you can't use content under a NonCommercial license.
>
>   
I assume so too, and thats not a problem.
> If you don't know about http://openclipart.org/ you should -- all SVG,
> all public domain.
>
>   
That and the open fonts project that unfortunately i can't find the link 
for were what gave me the idea.

Thanks for getting back to me.