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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: All content on this site is availabe under a CC license
  • Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:50:09 -0800

Firas D. wrote:
An HTTP header? X-License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0

That presumably says the same thing as embedding rdf:about="" in a page (the current URI is licensed).

This is exactly what I've been wondering about, and was going to collect my thoughts a bit before proposing this, but:

Please do post more ideas! :)

Does XMDP provide for a way to add semantics to values of the html class attribute?

So people can say

<blockquote class="license-http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0";>
<img class="license-http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0";>
<embed class="license-http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0";>

And so on.

I'm not sure what assertion your sample above is trying to make. That an image is specifically licensed? We can do that now with RDF.

I suggest that the license for each object referenced via an HTML document be resolved this way:

1. License embedded in the file; if unavailable, then:
2. License in the license-* value of the class attribute of the HTML tag that references it; if unavailable, then:
4. License in the X-License HTTP header.

This is a bit like CSS in the way that the style referenced with the most specificity is the style applied from clashing rules.

The license of the HTML document itself should not count because that would mean you can't reference any object without adding that the license of the HTML document isn't inherited.

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Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21




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