On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:49 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote: > Cool...Peter, what are you thinking now?
I think I'll commit the patch as is. It rounds out the API nicely, and doesn't seem to get anybody's dander up. At the risk of confusing things with more than one issue per email, here are the immediate things I'd like to do: (1) in liblicense I've been looking at implementing my "license intersection" function. It seems straight forward, now that I'm more familiar with the code. But this raises a problem: what if the intersection is the empty set? I.e. no rights at all. Is there scope for come kind of "on the fly" license URI that can be queried via the API, etc, but never actually exists as a URL you could view with a web browser, as you can for CC attributes URIs and rights URIs. (Probably the same thing: what if the intersection of the permitted rights is valid but isn't a CC license combination?) (2) in icon-compositor In trying to be a conscientious web citizen, I want to be able to display copyright notices with icons, as well as the license. But this raises a problem: there is no place to host copyright information within liblicense. This concerns me because I could wind up with not one but *two* files alongside each image: the one for the license information, and the one for the copyright information. It gets worse: when I need to say "(C) me, derived from a work (C) Fred Bloggs" how do I? We don't have this problem in source code, we just add our notice to the list in the header comment, right next to the license comment. They belong together in source code - shouldn't they belong together in images? One more thing: I feel that the CC site (http://creativecommons.org/ns) is very unclear on the difference between reproduction and distribution. Is distribution == reproduction * N, where n > 0 or n > 1 or n > 42 or ...? Surely I can make as many copies on my laptop as I like, or is there a problem there, too? Is distribution different than reproduction? Is distribution different than publication? I.e. giving a copy to someone vs making available to world on web site (the difference between personally handing out fliers vs leaving them on a table for people to pick up as they walk past). I've been wrestling with copyright for too many decades to be happy with the nebulous wording at the CC web site (and, yes, I get it that the answer varies by jurisdiction, I just feel the words could be much much less vague). Regards Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /\/\* http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/ PGP public key ID: 1024D/D0EDB64D fingerprint = AD0A C5DF C426 4F03 5D53 2BDB 18D8 A4E2 D0ED B64D See http://www.keyserver.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. "Once you change how you think it makes sense." -- Final Cut Pro easter egg
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