<snip>As you know, we're starting to "diversify" to allow more licenses. Not just the PDL. For example, the user guide will have a dual license. Linda's Art project has an assortment of licenses.
To make things clearer, I added some cute icons that tell you which licenses apply.
I'm trying to find a way to make things clear without being obtrusive, and without a lot of red tape. I figured pretty icons would be good.
What do you think?
+1
I really like them. The gnu looks a bit blurry to me, but that's nitpicking. The icons really are cool.
I'm trying to decide if I should add a "PDL" icon too. It would be seen everywhere on the site, except where a different license applies. Thoughts?
Yes, I think that's a good idea. Otherwise a visitor might wonder if we'd forgotten to label something.
I'm also trying to decide if we should leave it to just the icons. Or if we should add the text "this content is licensed under a Creative Commons license". Would that be obtrusive?
Text would be obtrusive. However, the bigger question is: Would the advantage of such a statement be greater than the disadvantage of the obtrusiveness? At the moment I don't have an answer for that question.
Jonathon wrote,
Should these be added to the individual documents as well?
I think not. The license information is in the document, so an icon would IMO just be noise.
Regards, Jean
