discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Carol Spears <carol AT gimp.org>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:55:15PM -0400, KirbyMeister wrote:
> Yes, but still, CC has been down more than once - and your license 
> declarations point to a website (which is stupid)
> 
> On 4/11/05, Carol Spears <carol AT gimp.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:11:07PM -0400, KirbyMeister wrote:
> > > It's pretty cool, although I dont get why the plugin has to access CC's
> > > website - what if it were to go down? Say the GNAA were to crapflood us,
> > > shutting down the server. That would break the plugin.
> > >
> > i think all the proper error circumstances have been accounted for in
> > the script. the journey to the web site is no different via the plug-in
> > than it would be with a web browser.
> > 
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-metadata

you can either point the user to the web site or point the plug-in at
the web site.  i fail to see any real difference.

if you are using the photoshop plug-in, if the creative commons web site
is down, the user probably does not know which license or template to
apply.  

what does the photoshop plug-in do if the creative commons site is down
and the web browser has no site to display the user?  the difference
between the two plug-ins is that it is still up to the user to remember
the choices he/she made.

it would be trivial to write an addition to the plug-in that would
author a local file creative commons file to be used as a personal
license.  something like that would fall in the gimp menus under
<Toolbox>/Xtns and not be image dependent.

right now, i am trying to use the cc button to watermark images via the
script.  the creative commons web site is very generous and the gimp
always worked really well online ....

carol