discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

["Firas D." <fd AT firasd.org>]

Firas D. wrote:

> > Header append X-License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0
>
>
> To clarify, that .htaccess snippet would serve any file in the site 
> with that header, hence satisfying the need for a machine-readable way 
> to say "All content on this site is available under a Creative Commons 
> license." 

Now that I think about it, what that actually says is "Each item of 
content on this site is available under a Creative Commons license." And 
you need to request each item before knowing.

Hmm.

Maybe, how in robots.txt you can allow or disallow spiders from crawling 
all of your site, a license.txt can say

/* This is a license declaration file, described in 
http://example.com/license.txt */

<-- Conditions to Match to apply license below to a file (such as file 
should be *.jpg) -->
<-- RDF Describing License -->

The matching conditions can borrow the robots.txt syntax.

Ok, now I'll cease posting for a bit :)