Liblicense
Low-level license metadata integration for applications.
liblicense provides a straight-forward way for developers to build license-aware applications. liblicense utilizes a pluggable module system for reading and writing metadata from specific file types, allowing extensibility for specific content types.
Features
- Extract and write license information for files
- Supports enumeration of available licenses
- Wraps internationalized license information for Creative Commons licenses
- Bindings for dynamic languages (currently Python and Ruby)
- Extensible support for file types using module system
- No specific GUI library dependency allows applications to build the graphical chooser most appropriate for their platform.
Future Improvements
- Supports verification URLs for metadata verification
Architecture
Bindings
Media
See Operating System Mockups for ideas on how liblicense could be integrated into various platforms.
Download
- Latest Release from Sourceforge.net
- Checkout liblicense module from SVN
- Debian and Ubuntu repositories.
- Read the tutorial.
More Information
- Release History and Roadmap
- Desktop Integration
- Screenshots
- RDF Reference
- Library Documentation (generated from source)
See Also
- Companion File metadata specification
- Tracker CC Indexing - also there is a great chart showing progress on reading/writing different filetypes...
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