Desktop Integration/EmbeddingExample - Revision history

Greg Grossmeier at 21:19, 20 August 2009

2009-08-20T21:19:08Z

Greg Grossmeier at 20:12, 20 August 2009

2009-08-20T20:12:33Z

Greg Grossmeier at 20:09, 20 August 2009

2009-08-20T20:09:38Z

Greg Grossmeier at 20:06, 20 August 2009

2009-08-20T20:06:07Z

Greg Grossmeier at 19:51, 20 August 2009

2009-08-20T19:51:20Z

Greg Grossmeier: Solution

2009-08-20T19:41:27Z

Solution

Greg Grossmeier: problem

2009-08-20T19:33:22Z

problem

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= What =

== Problem ==
When a person creates a new piece of media (eg: a new photo) and they wish to release this creation under a Creative Commons license they must indicate that somehow. The usual method is to put a bit of text next to the image on a webpage saying something similar to "This work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license" with a link to the license. There are common examples of this on many web media hosting services such as flickr or vimeo.

However, as soon as someone else downloads the file from the webpage there is no longer any contextual license information. It is now up to the downstream user to be accurate and faithful to the terms of the license. This undoubtedly means knowing which license the work is released under and unless they made a note of it somewhere else they are apt to forget.

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 == Solution ==
 If, however, the license information was embedded into the file at the time of creation (or sometime soon after by the creator) no matter where the file went (webpages, desktops, CDs, etc) the license information will always be readable by a downstream user. Now the user of the media will no longer need to keep track of the license information by hand which is conducive to mistakes. With the information in the file that should never be an issue.
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 Additionally, you can use '''[[liblicense]]''' to develop a license choosing function to your application (similar to what [[LicenseChooser.js]] does for web applications, see, for example, this [[Web_Integration/FileUploadExample|file upload example]].
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		+	: '''[[Desktop_Integration/DisplayExample\|Metadata Display Example]]'''
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		+	: '''Back to [[Desktop Integration]].'''
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 = Example =
 [[Inkscape]] is an Free/Open Source vector based drawing program that allows users to embed license information into the file metadata. The Inkscape developers have implemented this using their own method in C++. To see their implementation, [http://www.inkscape.org/svn.php?lang=en check out their source code] or just view the [http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/rdf.cpp?view=markup trunk/src/rdf.cpp] file.
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+[[Inkscape]] is an Free/Open Source vector based drawing program that allows users to embed license information into the file metadata. The Inkscape developers have implemented this using their own method in C++. To see their implementation, [http://www.inkscape.org/svn.php?lang=en check out their source code] or just view the [http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/rdf.cpp?view=markup trunk/src/rdf.cpp] file.
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-If, however, the license information was embedded into the file at the time of creation (or sometime soon after by the creator) no matter where the file went (webpages, desktops, CDs, etc) the license information will always be readable by a downstream user.
+If, however, the license information was embedded into the file at the time of creation (or sometime soon after by the creator) no matter where the file went (webpages, desktops, CDs, etc) the license information will always be readable by a downstream user. Now the user of the media will no longer need to keep track of the license information by hand which is conducive to mistakes. With the information in the file that should never be an issue.
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