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Re: rel="license"

From: Kevin Marks <cc AT mediagora.com>
To: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: Tantek Çelik <tantek AT tantek.com>
Subject: Re: rel="license"
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:54:29 -0800

On Feb 6, 2005, at 11:45 PM, Firas D. wrote:

Kevin Marks wrote:

Tantek just put together a formal spec for this:

http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/RelLicense

comments and improvements welcome.

Isn't this reinventing the 'copyright' value of rel? http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links

No, copyright asserts who has ownership, this describes the terms of use by connecting to the license

Also, if I read the normative XMDP correctly, what's going on here is that a new 'link type' is being defined--hence, it is usable on the <link> element too, not just hyperlinks? Putting document properties in an <a> element is just weird; I'm going to pull it out of the <a> element in my WordPress CC tool and put a <link rel="license"> in <head>.

<a> elements are useful as humans can see and click on them. This includes authors, who are often surprised when you tell them what is in their <meta> and <link>

rel="license", Kevin Marks, 02/07/2005
- Re: rel="license", Firas D., 02/07/2005
  - Re: rel="license", Kevin Marks, 02/07/2005
    - Re: rel="license", Firas D., 02/07/2005
- Re: rel="license", Andy Powell, 02/07/2005
  - Re: rel="license", snowchyld, 02/07/2005
    - Re: rel="license", Andy Powell, 02/07/2005
      - Re: rel="license", Sylvain ZIMMER, 02/07/2005
- Re: rel="license", Lucas Gonze, 02/07/2005
  - Re: rel="license", Firas D., 02/07/2005
    - Re: rel="license", Lucas Gonze, 02/07/2005
      - Re: rel="license", Firas D., 02/07/2005
  - Re: rel="license", Kevin Marks, 02/11/2005