On 8/20/06, Luke Hoersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luis, > Verification is optional and I don't see anyone disputing this.
(Re-reads original email.) So... the terminology has probably drifted a bit here :) The original email implied that EXIF had only one copyright field, and Mike suggested that should point at some page which was *not* the official CC URI. Thus (if I understood correctly, which is not necessarily the case, please do clarify if I'm misunderstanding) Mike's original suggestion was not the same as mandatory verification, but it would preclude mandatory license ID in the file- since there is only one field. (The combined field usage you suggested later would avoid this problem, but it isn't what Mike suggested originally.) > There > is indeed a need for verification because that is what people want. > There are many different contexts for the word "need" and I think you > are assuming the legal context when I mean a communal context. I mean both. I've been doing this for a long time, and never seen anyone in an open source community or in a corporate legal setting feel a need to do license verification, except under very unusual circumstances, where the license was used in a broken or non-standard way which made people doubt the provenance. Is this want actually a demonstrated community need, or just hypothetical? > Back to my first email, the issue of optional verification has already > been resolved with MP3 licenses. Yup. Thanks for the pointer- I agree that that would be perfectly acceptable. It's not what Mike originally suggested in this thread, though. :) Luis > On 8/20/06, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > so it seems to me that saying there is a > > > 'need' is a bit strong. > > > > > > Luis > > > > > > > > -- > Luke Hoersten > http://www.openradix.org/ > http://www.cs.purdue.edu/~lhoerste/ > _______________________________________________ > cc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel > _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
