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- From: Carl Lumma <carl AT lumma.org>
- To: info AT creativecommons.org
- Cc: metadata AT creativecommons.org
- Cc: press AT creativecommons.org
- Subject: more informative license iconography
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:20:13 -0800
Yo,
The iconography for the licences could be improved. The
rule is that users should be able to see all the possible
licenses from any instance of a licence. Like with CDs,
you knew there were recording, mastering and playback
columns; the first two could be A or D, and the third was
always D. The D-columns didn't disappear!
So I suggest you simply represent your "Choose a Licence"
form in pictures...
-> $ !
Dist. Sell Modify
Y Y Y
N N =
N
...for example, the "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike"
license becomes...
.------------.
| -> | $ | ! |
| Y | N | = |
'------------'
...and licensors should be able to download that for their
site, so that licensees don't have to follow a bloody link
to see what's going on, and then even after they follow the
link, they can't figure out how the pictures shown add up
to their right set. I found your site today from Tim Bray's
blog, and had to actually go through the "Choose a Licence"
process to figure out my rights with Tim's material.
Otherwise, you guys are awesome!!
-Carl
- more informative license iconography, Carl Lumma, 03/18/2003
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