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− | Creative Commons provides information on licenses for three audiences: lawyers, humans and machines. The machine-readable information is described using [http://www.w3.org/RDF RDF] and made available from [ | + | Creative Commons provides information on licenses for three audiences: lawyers, humans and machines. The machine-readable information is described using [http://www.w3.org/RDF RDF] and made available from the [https://github.com/creativecommons/cc.licenserdf creativecommons/cc.licenserdf] git repository. |
== File Naming == | == File Naming == |
Revision as of 23:12, 13 November 2019
Creative Commons provides information on licenses for three audiences: lawyers, humans and machines. The machine-readable information is described using RDF and made available from the creativecommons/cc.licenserdf git repository.
File Naming
Files in the license_rdf
module are named using the following convention:
creativecommons.org_license_[license-code]_[version]_[jurisdiction]_.rdf
More generally, you can take the URL of a license (i.e. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
), strip the protocol information (http://
) and replace all forward-slashes (/
) with underscores (_
) to arrive at the base filename. Liblicense provides a function to perform this mapping for you.
File Contents
Each file contains the RDF (encoded as RDF/XML) describing the particular license. Information described by the RDF includes:
- license name, including translations
- license description, including translations
- license properties, as described by ccREL
Usages
The license RDF files are used in the following CC applications:
- The license engine
- OpenOfficeOrg Addin
- Liblicense