discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Sam Berlin <sberlin AT limepeer.com>]

> 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).

Using X-Header would allow a way to verify a page is licensed under CC 
without spending the bandwidth & time to retrieve & parse the entire 
page.  You can do a simple HEAD request against the page, and 
presumably the X-License header would be in the response.

Thanks,
 Sam