I believe we decided not to address licensing in the Atom core because the probability of not getting it quite right is too high, especially given the differences between laws in various jurisdictions around the world. Having something in the core might require consuming applications to enforce licensing terms or make their authors liable in some jurisdictions, and we didn't want to create that rat's nest.
On Tuesday, April 19, 2005, at 09:15 PM, Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote:
Hi, I've recently ended up in argument about what to do with feeds that don't want to be reproduced. I e-mailed Dave Winer in the hope of getting some information about RSS end of things. That resulted in a blog entry with interesting comments [1], and I now know that Creative Commons has an RDF schema for describing licensing [2].
The only common feature I want to include, and haven't found, is the "noindex" type of behavior (do not include in search engines). I searched the archives of this list and found an old thread discussing this very issue [3]. It seems to have fizzled out and I haven't found anything more recent documents or discussions.
Was the issue simply forgotten or purposfully dropped?
In the RSS discussion, it was suggested by Roger Benningfield that
search eninges and syndication sites use atom:summary instead of
atom:content to avoid the noarchive issue. The rationale is that
summaries are meant to be reproduced, much like an abstract for a paper.
I'm not sure about nofollow, I think noindex is definitely needed. The latter could be used to opt-out of services such as Feedster, Technorati, and PubSub.
Thoughts and comments?
[1] http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/2005/04/19#a445 [2] http://web.resource.org/cc/ [3] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg00183.html
Regards, -Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
