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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Stephanie Gerson wrote:
> -LICENSE – so we decided on a license, that was pretty cool...but now 
> what?  Is there something we have to do, or would we do this after the 
> project is complete?  Rich, can you be in charge of this please?

At the programming code level there are a couple of things we need
to do:
        
1) All programming code files should have a statement saying they are 
covered by the GNU GPL.

--------
one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.
Copyright (C) yyyy  name of author

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
--------

2) A copy of the full GNU GPL should also be included in any
source code release.

3) We should also include the following text in an appropriate place on 
the web-site (where code is mentioned).

--------
<!-- Creative Commons License -->
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/";><img alt="CC-GNU 
GPL" border="0" 
src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/cc-GPL-a.png"; /></a><br />
This software is licensed under the <a 
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/";>CC-GNU GPL</a>.
<!-- /Creative Commons License -->


<!--

<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/";
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";>
<Work rdf:about="">
   <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/"; />
   <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Software"; />
</Work>

<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/";>
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"; />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"; />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"; />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"; />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike"; />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/SourceCode"; />
</License>

</rdf:RDF>

-->
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4) For the actual data we need to include
        a) a link to the creative commons license
                (ideally with picture)
        b) rdf meta data describing in machine readable fashion
                the license.
Ideally this is displayed on each page. This should not
be a problem as the code can easilly generate the appropriate
html code.

-------
<!-- Creative Commons License -->
<a rel="license" 
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/";><img 
alt="Creative Commons License" border="0" 
src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif"; /></a><br />
This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" 
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/";>Creative 
Commons License</a>.
<!-- /Creative Commons License -->


<!--

<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/";
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";>
<Work rdf:about="">
   <license 
rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/"; />
</Work>

<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/";>
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"; />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"; />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"; />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"; />
   <prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse"; />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"; />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike"; />
</License>

</rdf:RDF>

-->
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The work section should identify the resource in question.
For example the following is what I use for PFAF database.
-------
<Work rdf:about="http://www.pfaf.org/";>
   <dc:title>Plants For A Future</dc:title>
   <dc:date>2004-06-27</dc:date>
   <dc:description>A database of information about useful 
plants</dc:description>
   <dc:creator><Agent>
      <dc:title>Ken Fern, Richard Morris, Plants For A Future</dc:title>
   </Agent></dc:creator>
   <dc:rights><Agent>
      <dc:title>Plants For A Future/Ken Fern</dc:title>
   </Agent></dc:rights>
   <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text"; />
<license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0"; />
</Work>
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More details (including how to add the licence code to mpegs, pdf's etc) 
can be found at
        
http://creativecommons.org/license/license-install?lang=en&license_code=by-nc-sa

Rich
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