On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 14:58 +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Hi, > > 2007/8/31, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > All sounds good, but I think best to channel these ideas onto the wiki > > and roadmap. Rafael, can your team help with some of these todos and > > give good feedback. > > Right now we are all very busy with _the release_. KDE 4.0 is coming > in october, and we are all very concentrated on it. After the release > we need to polish all the bug reports that come into our bug reporting > system. > > For this reason I was planning on add liblicense KDE work for 4.1 > version. This will be far better.
Sounds good! > About the wiki, I think that what would be really nice is adding > another point on the roadmap: "KDE integration mainstream", or > something like that, explaining that we are planning this for 4.1 > version. We can't really know what version of liblicense will be > released at that time, so we can't even predict which one should be on > the streets. We just can say that for 4.1 we are planning of adding > liblicense KDE work mainstream. Ok, I added to 0.7 release of liblicense, cool? > When have more time I will get in contact with you too, because for > example: this work can be added to almost all applications (KOffice > devs told it would be really nice for them, as well as other specific > applications: graphics, sounds...). So our integration to this library > could be very very deep. On almost all content editing/creation > applications, as well as on the Dolphin file manager (where users will > be able to set license to more than one file at a time). This would be super brilliant!!! > For the file manager I had been thinking on a work that can be a bit > tricky, but that would rock for sure. I probably could give it a try > when finishing my _large_ TODO list. Is like: if you select 5 mp3 > files, and they have no license, and you are the creator, then you are > able to select the license for those 5 files through the Properties > dialog (the License tab). Great, this is what our kde integration does already, so with your help, pulling the KDE bits into KDE repository will only help this! > It would be interesting as well having mimetype license resolving. > With this I mean that the properties dialog should remove all > selectable licenses for letting on the dialog only those that match > those mimetypes. Yes, Jason, do you have any ideas on this? > It would be really nice adding that dialog all existing licenses too. > > What I wonder for the file manager if what happens if you select 3 mp3 > files and 2 cpp files for example. How could we achieve the properties > dialog. I think this can be discussed in further discussions about the > implementation, but just for set the basics problems that can appear > if this solution is taken. > > Since I'm not a lawyer, I would like to know if a file is marked as > "not editing possible" for example, if the graphics editor in KDE (e.g > Krita) could say when this image has been edited and going to save > "The License won't let you do this", or on the other hand, this is > possible if you do not distribute the modified copy. > > I think that's all :) Well, if you enforce things, you get into the DRM territory...the CC approach is to leave it up to the users and this has worked well...I've thought of making a pre-flight legal check that would highlight problems, but not enforce it, but some do not like this in previous discussions (EFF, etc) Regardless, I think it would be useful to many... Jon > > Bye and thank you, > Rafael Fernández López. -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list cc-devel@lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
