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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. | 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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| + | * license properties, as described by [[ccREL]] | ||
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Revision as of 20:43, 29 January 2008
Contents
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. 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
