On 10/10/07, Nathan Yergler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Creative Commons is currently working on implementation suggestions
> for how people can indicate that additional permissions are available
> outside the scope of a CC license. We've been referring to this as
> CC+ ("CC Plus"). CC+ is a very simple system that associates a "more
> permissions" URL with a work. Having this URL in a machine readable
> format is very important.
>
> One file format we're looking at is the Atom syndication format, and
> we have two different ideas for how we might implement this; I'm
> seeking feedback regarding best practices. One option is to use link
> with a custom rel; for example:
>
> <link rel="http://creativecommons.org/ns#morePermissions";
> href="http://example.com/commercial_license_purchase"; />
This is definitely the preferred option, as you can't guarantee
that everyone can produce XHTML content.
> The alternative is using RDFa
> (http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/primer) as part of an XHTML
> content payload.
>
> You can find examples of both at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Atom.
>
> Is there a feeling regarding the use of additional <link>s in feeds?
> Does most software just throw those away if it doesn't understand the
> rel?
Even if true I don't think it matters as you've stated that this is
supposed to be a machine readable URL, so applications
that understand the rel will know what to do with it, and others
that don't will ignore it.
-joe
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Joe Gregorio http://bitworking.org
