Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 15:32 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote:
> Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 09:05 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> >>Presumably CC could give you access to the database, and you could use
> >>all of them, not just a random sample.
> > 
> > Yes, CC would.
> 
> I'm going to have to take you up on that. We might need to talk about
> formats, etc. offlist (I'd want to get it into SQL, I think. But even
> CSV would do. What's the existing backend database?).

Mysql.  We have an atom dump, but it currently doesn't include
source/parent info, which you'd obviously need.  I'll followup tomorrow
on the cchost developer list.

> > * Whatever license used by the most popular contest source(s) will have
> > been re-used the most, regardless of its impact globally
> 
> I don't use ccMixter much myself -- are you saying that much of the
> content results from periodic contests?

Yes.

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