Difference between revisions of "Liblicense 03 release todo"

• issues
  • Nautilus writes a license to every file whose property dialog is displayed
  • license chooser returns devnations -- should we mark this as retired and then not return retired licenses? (added isReplacedBy by/3.0)
  • Unicode filename issues? Licenses aren't loaded for some test files with Japanese filenames. (Um, seems to work fine, now) (0.4)
  • Update gui_gtk.py to use license chooser API once the above is taken care of
  • configure --prefix=/usr/local dies trying to install the python bindings
    • libtool: install: error: cannot install `liblicense.la' to a directory not ending in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/liblicense
    • Update: works after a 'make distclean'
  • new license chooser API not wrapped in Ruby (0.4)
  • nautilus emblems don't work for me (Needed to touch /usr/share/icons/hicolor on installation)
  • No sampling licenses' RDF include the prohibits commericial use statement

• package press release

• tag svn

• package
  • source
  • rpm
  • deb
  • ebuild (Exempi, nautilus-python, and Liblicense ebuilds, courtesy of jakin)

publicity

informal

• mailing lists
  • cc-devel
  • cc-community
• sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=721153
• cc frontpage blog (written)
• digg http://digg.com/software/Creative_Commons_releases_licensing_on_the_desktop
• Boing Boing
• lwn@lwn.net
• newstips@heise.de
• PR: theobroma@revelinux.com
• http://www.newsforge.com/submit.pl
• http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
• http://www.desktoplinux.com/ - http://www.desktoplinux.com/cgi-bin/news_post.cgi (<-- Um dead link and no page to post in sight)
• Freshmeat
• gnome footnotes
• GnomeFiles for software which supports Gnome
• http://del.icio.us/
• http://technorati.com/wtf

formal

• press release
• packaged PRESS file
• prleap - another free pr service
• prbuzz - another free pr service
• nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
• See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
• http://linuxformat.co.uk/ - webmaster@linuxformat.co.uk
  • PR: login and submit news via top of page link
• http://linux-magazine.com/ - info@linux-magazine.com edit@linux-magazine.com
  • PR: pr@linux-magazine.com
• http://linuxjournal.com/ - ljeditor@ssc.com
  • PR: newproducts@ssc.com
• http://linuxmagazine.com/ - editors@linux-mag.com
  • PR: ???
• http://linuxuser.co.uk
  • PR: terry@linuxuser.co.uk
• http://www.tuxmagazine.com/ - editor@tuxmagazine.com
  • PR: ???
• http://www.linuxworld.com/ - mrhinkle@linuxworld.com tim@linuxworld.com

other

• cc techblog how to (Liblicense_tutorial)