On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 16:57 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > 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's no mandatory anything here... > > 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. :) I didn't suggest it because there doesn't seem to be an appropriate field to use in Exif, though if there is one or a custom field capability I don't know about please someone do tell. Also note that one can use XMP embedded metadata with JPEGs and it can handle both a "WebStatement" and a license URL. I would suggest that CC recommend only using XMP but AFAIK Exif support is much more widespread. -- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
