Manu, Martin, in brief, please do not propose/introduce/suggest new formats (hlicense, rel copyright etc) without at a minimum checking the wiki for work in progress regarding the limitations of rel-license.
http://microformats.org/wiki/license Thanks, Tantek -----Original Message----- From: Manu Sporny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:44:11 To: For discussion of new microformats.<microformats-new@microformats.org> Subject: Re: [uf-new] rel=license scoping and hAudio Toby A Inkster wrote: > With rel-license scoping has potentially major legal ramifications. > Essentially it means that any rel=license link found needs to be > manually checked to determine exactly what the licence applies to. And > if one needs to manually inspect a page to determine its licence, then > rel=license is adding no value. This is a very good point, Toby. It is an argument against using rel="license" in the current version of hAudio since the semantics do not match up with what is intended. Namely: "By adding rel="license" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is a license for the current page."[1] However, to give a counter-point, Creative Commons notes that rel="license" should be used to specify what music a particular work is licensed under: http://creativecommons.org/license/music Their approach has the musical work(s) described on a page as the only content on that page, so rel="license" makes a little more sense in their use case. This would also make sense in the hAudio case, but has a very high probability of abuse. The XHTML vocabulary also defines rel="license" as applying to the current document and not to resources in the document. http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#license Keep in mind that this is a non-issue in RDFa since you always have a subject, which is why it is supported in Audio RDFa[2]. If we do want to specify the license for Microformatted objects in the future, we should pick something else, like rel="hlicense" to specify the relationship between a Microformat object and it's license. However, hAudio does not have enough examples of specifying the license to warrant this addition to the Microformat. -- manu [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-license#Abstract [2] http://purl.org/media/audio _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list microformats-new@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list microformats-new@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new