discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

["Luke Hoersten" <luke.hoersten AT gmail.com>]

On 8/20/06, Luis Villa <luis AT tieguy.org> wrote:
> That said, what Mike seemed to originally be arguing for, and what I
> think is a very, very bad idea (impossible to determine license
> without going online), and what you and Nathan appear to be arguing
> for (license information available offline, with /optional/
> verification online) are different things; the second I have no
> objection to and in fact sounds like a great idea. So which is it? :)
>
> Luis

I'll let Mike explain what he was talking about but, yes, I was saying
that license information should be available in the metadata and
optionally verified online just as CC licensing works in MP3s. Whether
this is a main motivation in the GPL or not (I don't think I said
either way), many people use the GPL in the same way (verifying the
GPL license claim at hand by using the link or email address
supplied). GPL verification is done in a much more casual way than the
CC licenses and some people don't even notice they do it, but, a need
for verification still exists.

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