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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 the Subversion repository in the [http://cctools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cctools/license.rdf/trunk/license_rdf license.rdf/license_rdf] module.
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== File Naming ==
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Files in the <code>license_rdf</code> module are named using the following convention:
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<pre>creativecommons.org_license_[license-code]_[version]_[jurisdiction]_.rdf</pre>
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More generally, you can take the URL of a license (i.e. <code>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</code>), strip the protocol information (<code>http://</code>) and replace all forward-slashes (<code>/</code>) with underscores (<code>_</code>) to arrive at the base filename.  [[Liblicense]] provides a function to perform this mapping for you.
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== File Contents ==
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Each file contains the RDF (encoded as RDF/XML) describing the particular license.
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== Usages ==
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The license RDF files are used in the following CC applications:
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* The license engine
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* OpenOffice.org add-in
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* Liblicense
  
 
== License Files (.rdf) ==
 
== License Files (.rdf) ==
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* dc:publisher
 
* dc:publisher
 
* dc:identifier - URI of license ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt URI])
 
* dc:identifier - URI of license ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt URI])
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=== Example ===
 
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<pre><rdf:RDF
 
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  xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
 
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  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
 
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  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
 
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  xmlns:dcq="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
 
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  <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/za/">
 
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    <dc:title>Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives</dc:title>
 
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    <dc:description>This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial,
 
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as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.</dc:description>
 
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    <dc:coverage>
 
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        <dcq:ISO3166>
 
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            <rdf:value>za</rdf:value>
 
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        </dcq:ISO3166>
 
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    </dc:coverage>
 
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    <dc:hasVersion>2.0</dc:hasVersion>
 
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    <dc:isReplacedBy>
 
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        <dcq:URI>
 
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            <rdf:value>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/za/</rdf:value>
 
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        </dcq:URI>
 
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    </dc:isReplacedBy>
 
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    <dc:isBasedOn>
 
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        <dcq:URI>
 
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            <rdf:value>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/</rdf:value>
 
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        </dcq:URI>
 
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    </dc:isBasedOn>
 
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    <dc:type>License</dc:type>
 
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    <dc:creator>iCommons</dc:creator>
 
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    <dc:publisher>Creative Commons</dc:publisher>
 
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    <dc:identifier>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/za/</dc:identifier>
 
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    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#License"/>
 
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    <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"/>
 
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    <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"/>
 
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    <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"/>
 
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    <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"/>
 
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  </rdf:Description>
 
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</rdf:RDF></pre>
 
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=== Example (i18n) ===
 
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<pre><rdf:RDF
 
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  xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
 
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  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
 
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  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
 
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  <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/">
 
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    <dc:title>
 
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        <rdf:Alt>
 
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            <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives</rdf:li>
 
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            <rdf:li xml:lang="es-cl">Creative Commons Atribución-SinDerivadas</rdf:li>
 
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    </dc:title>
 
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            <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial,
 
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as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.</rdf:li>
 
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    <dc:coverage>
 
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        <dcq:ISO3166>
 
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            <rdf:value>us</rdf:value>
 
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    </dc:coverage>
 
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    <dc:hasVersion>2.0</dc:hasVersion>
 
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    <dc:isReplacedBy>
 
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        <dcq:URI>
 
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            <rdf:value>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/</rdf:value>
 
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        </dcq:URI>
 
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    </dc:isReplacedBy>
 
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    <dc:type>License</dc:type>
 
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    <dc:creator>Creative Commons</dc:creator>
 
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    <dc:publisher>Creative Commons</dc:publisher>
 
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    <dc:identifier>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/</dc:identifier>
 
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    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#License"/>
 
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    <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"/>
 
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    <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"/>
 
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    <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"/>
 
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    <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"/>
 
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  </rdf:Description>
 
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Revision as of 20:05, 29 January 2008

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 Subversion repository in the license.rdf/license_rdf module.

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.

Usages

The license RDF files are used in the following CC applications:

  • The license engine
  • OpenOffice.org add-in
  • Liblicense

License Files (.rdf)

Attributes

  • cc:license
    • about
    • permits
    • requires
    • prohibits
  • dc:title - The human readable name of the license.
  • dc:description - Description of the license.
  • dc:coverage - The jurisdiction of the license. (country code from ISO3166)
  • dc:relation
    • hasVersion - version number
    • isReplacedBy - indicates retired license (URI)
    • isBasedOn - indicates ported version (URI)
  • dc:type - always "License"
  • dc:creator
  • dc:publisher
  • dc:identifier - URI of license (URI)
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