discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

["Andreas Haugstrup" <solitude AT solitude.dk>]

On Wed, 25 May 2005 04:37:22 +0200, Anonymous <oanm4ylx02 AT sneakemail.com>  
wrote:

> HTML 4.0's <link> tag has made RSS extremely easy to use. However,  
> Creative Commons makes no use of it, preferring instead either an anchor  
> somewhere on the page to the license, or RDF data in a comment.  
> Shouldn't we support a <link rel="copyright"> linking to the proper  
> license page? It seems like a more standardized and safe way of noting  
> CC licensing than the two formats we currently use.

rel="copyright" points to a copyright statement for the current page. It  
is a part of the HTML specification.
Source: <URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-links >

rel="license" points to a license for the current page. It's already in  
use on the license picker thingie on the CC website. Personally I don't  
see why there's a need for rel="license" when rel="copyright" already  
existed. I mean, a copyright statement is a license too... Anyway, I guess  
it doesn't hurt to use both.
Source: <URL: http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/RelLicense >

- Andreas
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