Designer wrote:
What are your views on a 'Creative Commons' license? [ www.creativecommons.org ]
They're very good licences.
Seems a reasonable idea to me, though I don't really grasp the full implications of rdf data yet.
Don't use the RDF nonsense they propose for use within (X)HTML that is actually hidden within a comment. If you're going to embed it in the file, it needs to be done properly in an XML document and cannot be done for HTML or XHTML served as text/html.
You could, however, put in in a separate XML file (without surrounding it in a comment) and <link> to it.
<link rel="license" type="application/rdf+xml" href="cc.rdf"> (note the US spelling of "license", instead of "licence")
I presume that one could use this approach to protect one's designs? Anyone done it? Any pitfalls?
Many people have used the licence for many things and if you're interested in a fairer and far less strict licence than that imposed by regular copyright laws, then go for it.
Any standards issues?
Beyond the use of RDF or other markup to declare it, it really has nothing to do with web standards.
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